The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.

[T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution] has established . . . are the two sheet anchors of our Union. If driven from either, we shall be in danger of foundering.

No man complains of his neighbor for ill management of his affairs, for an error in sowing his land, or marrying his daughter, for consuming his substance in taverns ... in all these he has liberty; but if he does not frequent the church, or then conform in ceremonies, there is an immediate uproar.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

When, in short, we shall have unlearned everything which has been taught since his [Jesus'] day, and got back to the pure and simple doctrines he inculcated, we shall then be truly and worthily his disciples: and my opinion is that if nothing had ever been added to what flowed purely from his lips, the whole world would at this day have been Christian.

Easter was when they nailed Him to the cross. And He never said a mumbling word.