God is too large to be housed under one roof.

There is a moral virtue, a moral fidelity, ability and honesty, which other men, besides church members, are, by good nature and education, by good laws and good examples nourished and trained up in; so that civil places and trust and credit need not be monopolized into the hands of church members (who sometimes are not fitted for public office), while all others are deprived and despoiled of their natural and civil rights and liberties.

The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.

I do not condone hostility toward any church simply to vent personal malice or umbrage.

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

'Tis but worldly policy and compliance with men and times (God's mercy overruling) that holds your hands from the murdering of thousands and ten thousands, were your power and command as great as the bloody Roman emperors' formerly was.

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.