It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.

How easily men satisfy themselves that the Constitution is exactly what they wish it to be

In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can exist without the latter, but the latter cannot exist without them.

I know of no power, indeed, of which a free people ought to be more jealous, than of that of levying taxes and duties.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, and selecting, and re-organizing its own materials.