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?

The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.

What is the structure of government that will best guard against the precipitate counsels and factious combinations for unjust purposes, without a sacrifice of the fundamental principle of republicanism?

Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely to be found, so the choice would be less likely to be diverted from him, by the intrigues of the ambitious, or the bribes of the rich.

Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.... Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

[Christianity] existed and flourishes, not only without the support of human laws, but in spite of every opposition from them.

Conscience is the most sacred of all property.