"Conscience
is the most sacred of all property; other property depending
in part on positive law, the exercise of that being a natural
and unalienable right. To guard a man's house as his castle,
to pay public and enforce private debts with the most exact
faith, can give no title to invade a man's conscience, which
is more sacred than his castle, or to withhold from it that
debt of protection for which the public faith is pledged by
the very nature and original conditions of the social pact."