The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.