The regulation of commerce, it is true, is a new power; but that seems to be an addition which few oppose and from which no apprehensions are entertained.

Outlets for the freed blacks are alone wanted for the erasure of the blot from our Republican character.

That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it is in vain to look for public virtue; it is, therefore, the duty of legislators to enforce, both by precept and example, the utility, as well as the necessity, of a strict adherence to the rules of distributive justice.

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

The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government.

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

The political truths declared in that solemn manner acquire by degrees the character of fundamental maxims of free Government, and as they become incorporated with national sentiment, counteract the impulses of interest and passion.