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.

A new invention to poison people ... is not a patentable invention.

There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundation.

In a general sense, all contributions imposed by the government upon individuals for the service of the state, are called taxes, by whatever name they may be known, whether by the name of tribute, tythe, tallage, impost, duty, gabel, custom, subsidy, aid, supply, excise, or other name.

Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Unaw'd by influence and unbrib'd by gain; Here patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw, Pledg'd to Religion, Liberty, and Law.

If the Constitution is a compact, then the States have a right to secede.

The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic.