A false worship will not hurt the civil state if the worshipper breaks no civil law.

When He send, His messengers will go, His prophets will prophesy, though all the world should forbid them.

When they have opened a gap in the ... wall of separation between the Garden of the Church and the wildernes of the world, God hath ever ... made his Garden a Wildernesse.

My aim is to lay bare and proclaim the crying and horrible guilt of the bloody doctrine of persecution as one of the most seditious, destructive, blasphemous, and bloodiest in any or all the nations of the world, notwithstanding the many fine veils, pretenses, and colors of not persecuting Christ Jesus, but heretics; not God's truth or servants, but blasphemers and seducers; not persecuting men for their conscience, but for sinning against their conscience; and like specious reasonings to justify the cruelty of intolerance.

Kings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them.

The greatest crime is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.

It is less hurtful to compel a man to marry someone whom he does not love than to follow a religion in which he does not believe.