A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have common motive to invade the rights of other citizens.

Whilst the last members were signing it Doctr. Franklin looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him, that Painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art a rising from a setting sun.

In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights.

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

A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.