The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect that can win political power.

It is possible to hold a faith with enough confidence to believe that what should be rendered to God does not need to be decided and collected by Caesar.

Nothing in our Constitution is plainer than that declaration of a war is entrusted only to Congress. Of course, a state of war may in fact exist without a form…

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.