We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and obedience to the laws. And we have experienced the quiet as well as the comfort which results from leaving every one to profess freely and openly those principles of religion which are the inductions of his own reason and the serious convictions of his own inquiries.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army

The cutting of heads is become so much a la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on their shoulders.

One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it.

Every experience deeply felt in life needs to be passed along. Wheather it be through words and music, chiseled in stone, painted with a brush, or sewn with a needle, it is a way of reaching for immortality.

The President is bound to stop at the limits prescribed by our Constitution and law to the authorities in his hands, [and this] would apply in an occasion of peace as well as war.

Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.