The question is, not what rights naturally belong to man, but how they may be most equally and effectually guarded in society.

Congress has no power to make any religious establishments.

True Christians are assured that no temptation (or trial) shall happen to them but what they shall be enabled to bear and that the grace of Christ shall be sufficient for them.

Sad will be the day when the American people forget their traditions and their history, and so longer remember that the country they love, the institutions they cherish, and the freedom they hope to preserve, were born from the throes of armed resistance to tyranny, and nursed in the rugged arms of fearless men.

The question is, not what rights naturally belong to man, but how they may be most equally and effectually guarded in society.