I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, th….

Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary ac….

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establ….

No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject..

Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harves….

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent ….

...Freedom arises from the multiplicity of sects, which prevades America and which is the best and only security for religious liberty in any society….

Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding ….

The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse of all the trusts committed to a Government, because they can be conc….

The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature..

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare..

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money..

That is not a just government where arbitrary restrictions, exemptions, and monopolies deny to part of its citizens that free use of their faculties,….

In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws. I….

The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree..

A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty..

There is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by...corp….

The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the ….

If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within..

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood….

The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be greater than that of devising a satisf….