Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.

I would observe to you that what is called style in writing or speaking is formed very early in life while the imagination is warm, and impressions are permanent.

Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.

It is not the policy of the government in America to give aid to works of any kind. They let things take their natural course without help or impediment, which is generally the best policy.

Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to dogmatize religious opinions for our citizens? Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched? Is a priest to be our inquisitor, or shall a layman, simple as ourselves, set up his reason as the rule of what we are to read, and what we must believe?

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

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