Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history.

Are not the daily devotions conducted by these legal ecclesiastics already degenerating into a scanty attendance, and a tiresome formality?

[Property] embraces everything to which a man may attach a value and have a right.

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment.

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

If this spirit shall ever be so far debased, as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate any thing but liberty.