Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.

I have ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect.

The temple through which alone lies the road to that of Liberty.

An efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free government.

The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor.

The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it.