"The greatest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores the Constitution."

"The will of the people, expressed by their representatives, is the only legitimate foundation of any government."

"The earth belongs to the living, not the dead."

"The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and ingrafted into the civil institutions, have a bias to look to the civil arm for support, and to awe with civil penalties."

"I do not know whether it is a greater proof of the wisdom or the folly of man, that he is so apt to be caught by the same bait, and to fall into the same snare, from generation to generation."