This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.

It is not the policy of the government in America to give aid to works of any kind. They let things take their natural course without help or impediment, which is generally the best policy.

Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.

It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected.

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.

All authority belongs to the people.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.