The number of individuals employed under the Constitution of the United States will be much smaller than the number employed under the particular States.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad.

It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants in the Constitution itself necessary usurpations of power, every precedent of which is a germ of unnecessary and multiplied repetitions.

A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.

The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.