The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.

The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace.

I have received your letter of the 6th, with the eloquent discourse delivered at the consecration of the Jewish Synagogue. Having ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect, and the secure enjoyment of it as the best human provision for bringing all either into the same way of thinking, or into that mutual charity which is the only substitute, I observe with pleasure the view you give of the spirit in which your sect partake of the blessings offered by our Government and laws.

Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.

Having outlived so many of my contemporaries, I ought not to forget that I may be thought to have outlived myself.

A President is impeachable if he attempts to subvert the Constitution.

An oath-the strongest of religious ties.