Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

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

We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.

Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?

[A]s it must be admitted that the remedy under the Constitution lies where it has been marked out by the Constitution; and that no appeal can be consistently made from that remedy by those who were and still profess to be parties to it, but the appeal to the parties themselves having an authority above the Constitution or to the law of nature & of nature's God.

A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.

A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.