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

Is there a Legislative power in fact, not expressly prohibited by the Constitution, which might not, according to the doctrine of the Court, be exercised as a means of carrying into effect some specified Power?

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

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects.

What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security.

Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a law should be so?