Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government |
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect |
Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided. |
Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation |
Strongly guarded as is the separation between religion and government in the Constitution of the United States the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies, may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history |
Such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. |
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny |
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. |
The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness on that account |
The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis. |
The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right . |
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. |
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. |
The distinction between liberty and licentiousness is a repetition of the Protean doctrine of implication, which is ever ready to work its ends by varying its shape |
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. |