Taste cannot be controlled by law.

It is Mortifying to suppose it possible that a people able and zealous to contend with the Enemy should be reduced to fold their Arms for want of the means of defence; yet no resources that we know of, ensure us against this event.

ours are the only farmers who can read Homer

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error.

Health is worth more than learning.

The construction applied . . . to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power . . . ought not to be construed as themselves to give unlimited powers, nor a part to be so taken as to destroy the whole residue of that instrument.