The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.

In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.

I consider it…as subverting the fundamental and characteristic principle of the Government…and as bidding defiance to the sense in which the Constitution is known to have been proposed, advocated, and adopted. If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one.

A just government has no need for the clergy or the church.

If justice, good faith, honor, gratitude and all the other qualities which enoble the character of a nation, and fulfill the ends of Government be the fruits of our establishments, the cause of liberty will acquire a dignity and lustre, which it has never yet enjoyed, and an example will be set, which can not but have the most favorable influence on the rights of Mankind.