Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

As government grows, freedom recedes.

No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination.

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.

Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.

The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone, with whom no one of these ideas was original, combines all together, and produces what is justly called a new invention.

The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man