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

[T]he bill exceeds the rightful authority to which governments are limited by the essential distinction between civil and religious functions, and violates in particular the article of the Constitution of the United States which declares that Congress shall make no law respecting a religious establishment.... This particular church, therefore, would so far be a religious establishment by law, a legal force and sanction being given to certain articles in its constitution and administration.

No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject.

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment.

In framing a system, which we wish to last for ages, we should not lose sight of the changes which ages will produce.

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

Americans need not fear the federal government because they enjoy the advantage of being armed, which you possess over the people of almost every other nation.