I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern.

Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government.

If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press.

Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the purpose of providing for the general welfare.' For the laying of taxes is the power, and the general welfare the purpose for which the power is to be exercised. They are not to lay taxes ad libitum for any purpose they please; but only to pay the debts or provide for the welfare of the Union.

An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.