Good conscience is the most valuable asset of all!

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

A people armed and free, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic oppression.

For the same reason that the members of the State legislatures will be unlikely to attach themselves sufficiently to national objects, the members of the federal legislature will be likely to attach themselves too much to local objects.

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

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

In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights.