I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.

Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings,--indeed, to exist at all,--must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any human institution, else it would be the absurdest thing in the world,--an acknowledged cheat.

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.

True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.