Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don't care what it is.

It seemed to me that constant stressing of the individual rights and privileges of American citizenship had overshadowed the equally important truth that such individualism can be sustained only so long as the citizen accepts his full responsibility for the welfare of the nation that protects him in the exercise of these rights.

Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.

Religion, by 'consecrating' the state, gives the people an added impetus to respect and regard their regime.

The restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are to be reckoned among their rights.

The very idea of the fabrication of a new government is enough to fill us with disgust and horror.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

The great citizens of a country are not those who bend the knee before authority but rather those who, against authority if need be, are adamant as to the honor and freedom of that country.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.

If we {Federalists] must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures. Under Adams as under Jefferson , the government shall sink. The party in the hands of whose chief it shall sink will sink with it—and the advantage will be all on the side of his adversaries.

If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between the two, that which has the superior obligation and validity ought, of course, to be preferred; or in other words, the Constitution ought to be preferred to the statute; the intention of the People to the intention of their agents.