No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.

Every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient proof of the being of god.

When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion, as I to mine. Why should I question it? His error does me no injury, and shall I become a Don Quixote, to bring all men by force of argument to one opinion? ...Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

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

Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.

The government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers.