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

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.

American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those of their own country. The same just and benevolent motives which produced interdiction in force against this criminal conduct will doubtless be felt by Congress in devising further means of suppressing the evil.

The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.

The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable.

[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.