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.

Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance.

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

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

The President is responsible to the public for the conduct of the person he has nominated and appointed.

A bad cause seldom fails to betray itself.

It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much ... to forget it