Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?

The security intended to the general liberty consists in the frequent election and in the rotation of the members of Congress.

The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.

In the latter sense, a man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. He has a property of peculiar value in his religious opinions, and in the profession and practice dictated by them. He has an equal property in the free use of his faculties and free choice of the objects on which to employ them. In a word, as a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

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

In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature.

We have the self-evident right to regulate our trade according to our own will and our own interest . . . . This right can be denied to no independent nation.