"The press is, almost without exception, corrupt...." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are the heathen.”

“Our actual Friends are but distant relations of those to whom we are pledged.”

“It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.”

“The media only report stupid or careless answers, not stupid or unfair questions.”

“This dark diction has become America's addiction.”

“The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep he waters pure.”

“Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.”

“Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite.”

“When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.”