No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul.

There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it.

Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.