The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.

Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the laws have thought it less mischievous to give greater scope to its freedom than to the restraint of it.

The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights

Many are the exercises of power reserved to the States wherein a uniformity of proceeding would be advantageous to all. Such are quarantines, health laws, regulations of the press, banking institutions, training militia, etc., etc.

the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only... If [free enquiry] be restrained now, the present corruptions will be protected, and new ones encouraged.