Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights.—Junius.
The liberty of the press is the true measure of all other liberty; for all freedom without this must be merely nominal.—Chatfield.
The invention of printing added a new element of power to the race. From that hour, in a most especial sense, the brain and not the arm, the thinker and not the soldier, books and not kings, were to rule the world; and weapons, forged in the mind, keen-edged and brighter than the sunbeam, were to supplant the sword and the battle-axe.—Whipple.
Pretension.—It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are not unfrequently as much underrated by some as overrated by others.—Whately.
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: nature never pretends.—Lavater.
When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.—Spurgeon.
True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can anything feigned be lasting.—Cicero.
It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.—Plutarch.
He who gives himself airs of importance, exhibits the credentials of impotence.—Lavater.
The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.—La Rochefoucauld.