The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world.
Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.
The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.
There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.
The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.