It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end.

What we learn to do, we learn by doing.

Every man's reason is his own rightful umpire. This principle, with that of acquiescence in the will of the majority, will preserve us free and prosperous as long as they are sacredly observed.

The provisions we have made [for our government] are such as please ourselves; they answer the substantial purposes of government and of justice, and other purposes than these should not be answered.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.

The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights