Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any Manner contrary to their conscience.

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land.

The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

Government destitute of energy, will ever produce anarchy.

Should ardent spirits be everywhere banished from the list of drinks, it will be a revolution not the least remarkable in this revolutionary age, and our country will have its full share in that as in other merits.

Conscience is the most sacred of all property.