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

Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep.

The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people.

It is in the love of one's family only that heartfelt happiness is known.

Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves where we are we must tread with awful reverence in the footsteps of our fathers']is the genuine fruit of the alliance between Church and State, the tenants of which finding themselves but too well in their present condition, oppose all advances which might unmask their usurpations and monopolies of honors, wealth and power, and fear every change as endangering the comforts they now hold.