You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me "the writer of the Constitution of the United States." This was not, like the fabled Goddess of Wisdom, the offspring of a single brain. It ought to be regarded as the work of many heads and many hands.

Measures should be enacted which, without violating the rights of property, would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort.

No power over the freedom of religion [is] delegated to the United States by the Constitution.

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.

From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results.

Nor is any evidence to be found, either in History or Human Nature, that nations are to be bribed out of a spirit of encroachment and aggression, by humiliations which nourish their pride, or by concessions that extend their resources and power.