Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

Nothing has yet been offered to invalidate the doctrine that the meaning of the Constitution may as well be ascertained by the Legislative as by the Judicial authority.

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

The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective

Despotism can only exist in darkness.

Nothing could be more irrational than to give the people power, and to withhold from them information without which power is abused.

The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself.