Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
An oath-the strongest of religious ties.
If the public homage of a people can ever be worthy of the favorable regard of the Holy and Omniscient Being to Whom it is addressed, it must be that in which those who join in it are guided only be their free choice-by the impulse of their hearts and the dictates of their consciences...
Our Constitution represents the work of the finger of Almighty God.
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Democracy is the most vile form of government.