The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced, continued, or concluded.

The President is responsible to the public for the conduct of the person he has nominated and appointed.

[I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government.

The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles.

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

The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.