A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.

The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext infringed.

Let the influx of money be ever so great, if there be no confidence, property will sink in value... The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

In no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not the executive department. ... The trust and the temptation would be too great for any one man.

No power over the freedom of religion [is] delegated to the United States by the Constitution.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.