Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.

The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.

The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.

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

A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking.

It is very certain that [the commerce clause] grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing, and was intended as a negative and preventive provision against injustice among the States themselves, rather than as a power to be used for the positive purposes of the General Government.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.