The federal government is our servant, not our master.

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.

I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the being worshipped by many who think themselves Christians.

The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written.

The foundation on which (our government is) built is the natural equality of man, the denial of every pre-eminence but that annexed to legal office, and particularly the denial of a pre-eminence by birth.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

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