Equal laws protecting equal rights…the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.

No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject.

A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.

The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3 pence on tea, the magnitude of the evil comprized in the precedent. Let them exert the same wisdom, in watching agst every evil lurking under plausible disguises, and growing up from small beginnings.

A just government has no need for the clergy or the church.

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

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