It is iniquitous, unjust, and most impolitic to persecute for religion's sake. It is against natural religion, revealed religion, and sound policy.

An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing.

The expenses of the paperwork and court fees involved in pursuing the appeal through the courts were not too high. In fact, as I recall, removing prayer from U.S. public schools cost less than $20,000... no Christian organization filed a brief in support of our opponents.

Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them.

A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

There is no positive law: Many things are bad by that, which otherwise were not.

The law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law, a crime.