To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions.

The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and tory belong to natural as well as to civil history. They denote the temper and constitution and mind of different individuals.

And, in general, that branch which is to act ultimately and without appeal on any law is the rightful expositor of the validity of the law, uncontrolled by the opinions of the other coordinate authorities.

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