Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.

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

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

I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society. One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a part of the Common Law... There never has been a period in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying its foundations.

Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.

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

This provision (the 4th Amendment) speaks for itself. Its plain object is to secure the perfect enjoyment of that great right of the common law, that a man's house shall be his own castle, privileged against all civil and military intrusion.