Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State.

If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.

If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, w…

We all agree that neither the Government nor political parties ought to interfere with religious sects. It is equally true that religious sects ought not to in…

All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.

While I concur with the Synod in the efficacy of prayer, and in the hope that our country may be preserved from the attacks of pestilence 'and that the judgmen…