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?

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

Measures should be enacted which, without violating the rights of property, would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort.

A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.