Joseph Story Quotes
A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.
One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.
No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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.
There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundation.
The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic.
How easily men satisfy themselves that the Constitution is exactly what they wish it to be
It is important also to consider, that the surest means of avoiding war is to be prepared for it in peace.
Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.
To secure integrity there must a lofty sense of duty and a deep responsibility to future times as well as to God.
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.
Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, and selecting, and re-organizing its own materials.
Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.
A government, forever changing and changeable, is, indeed, in a state bordering upon anarchy and confusion.
The First Amendment was not intended to withdraw the Christian religion as a whole from the protection of Congress.
I know of no power, indeed, of which a free people ought to be more jealous, than of that of levying taxes and duties.
