I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate wherever the Government assumes a freer aspect,& the laws favor a subdivision of property.

I flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind.

That useful alterations will be suggested by experience, could not but be foreseen . . . . It moreover equally enables the general and state governments to originate the amendment of errors as they may be pointed out by the experience on one side or on the other.

In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the disease incident to republican government.

The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

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.