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.
The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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.
Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.