No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance.

The United States has a system of taxation by confession

The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.

I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon.

[I]t is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century whenever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of the many.

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to... bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion.