There is not a truth to be gathered from history more certain, or more momentous, than this that civil liberty cannot long be separated from religious liberty without danger, and ultimately without destruction to both. Wherever religious liberty exists, it will, first or last, bring in and establish political liberty.
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And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.Joseph Story
The plain import of the clause is, that congress shall have all the incidental and instrumental powers, necessary and proper to carry into execution all the express powers. It neither enlarges any power specifically granted nor is it a grant of any new power to congress. But it is merely a declaration for the removal of all uncertainty, that the means of carrying into execution those, otherwise granted, are included in the grant.
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How it is possible to imagine that a religion breathing the spirit of mercy and benevolence, teaching the forgiveness of injuries, the exercise of charity, and the return of good for evil, can be so perverted as to breathe the spirit of slaughter and persecution, of discord and vengeance, for differences of opinion, is a most unaccountable and extraordinary phenomenon. Still more extraordinary, that it should be the doctrine, not of base and wicked men merely seeking to cover up their own misdeeds, but of good men, seeking the way of salvation with uprightness of heart and purpose. It affords a melancholy proof of the infirmity of human judgment, and teaches a lesson of humility from which spiritual pride may learn meekness, and spiritual zeal a moderating wisdom.
Joseph Story
Be brief, be pointed, let your matter stand lucid in order, solid and at hand spend not your words on trifles but condense strike with the mass of thought, not drops of sense press to the close with vigor, once begun, and leave - how hard the task
Joseph Story
It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.
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Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Unaw'd by influence and unbrib'd by gain Here patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw, Pledg'd to Religion, Liberty, and Law.
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