It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is to say, that the means follow their end.

The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination.

I trust there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian.

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

It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods.