Bills of attainder, ex-post facto laws and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation.

Resistance to tyranny is service to God.

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.

Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society.

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?

If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within.

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