I flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind.

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

Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.

[A]ll power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people. That government is instituted and ought to be exercised for the benefit of the people; which consists in the enjoyment of life and liberty and the right of acquiring property, and generally of pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. That the people have an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to reform or change their government whenever it be found adverse or inadequate to the purpose of its institution.

Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a law should be so?

It is a misfortune incident to republican government, though in a less degree than to other governments, that those who administer it, may forget their obligations to their constituents, and prove unfaithful to their important trust.

No distinction seems to be more obvious than that between spiritual and temporal matters. Yet whenever they have been made objects of Legislation, they have clashed and contended with each other, till one or the other has gained the supremacy.