"The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded."

"The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the World."

"A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them."

"Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of Liberty, but also by the abuse of power."

"It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealously be the first duty of citizens, and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The freeman of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principal."