[I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government.

Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any Manner contrary to their conscience.

We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments.

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

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.

The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.