But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature.

Religion ceases to be religion when its poetic authority is recast as civic authority.

This means that a peculiar burden falls on property owners. Since the laws protecting their property will be effective only when they are able to persuade others to obey those laws, they must introduce a theatricality into their ownership sufficiently engaging that their opponents will live by its script.

Well, it is the law, my lord,' replied Mr Blundell, 'and it's not my place to argue about it.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.

Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.

Anyone who does not want communism-and none of us do-should take socialism seriously.

A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.

We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no man's right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society, and that Religion is wholly exempt from its cognizance.