The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible; and the same remedy will make us so.

One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed.

We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.

It is time enough, for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere [in the propagation of religious teachings] when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.