Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a law should be so?

Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that, being a natural and unalienable right.

It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage...Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.

The regulation of commerce, it is true, is a new power; but that seems to be an addition which few oppose and from which no apprehensions are entertained.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.