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.

Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods.

God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state.

If any refuse to obey the common laws and orders of the ship concerning their common peace or preservation; if any shall mutiny or rise up against their commanders and officers; if any should preach or write that there should be no commanders or officers because all are equal in Christ, therefore no master or officers, no laws nor orders, nor corrections nor punishments - I say I never denied that in such cases, the commander may judge, resist, compel, and punish such transgressors according to their deserts and merits.

Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world.

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

There goes many a ship to sea, with many hundred souls in one ship, whose weal and woe is common, and is a true picture of a commonwealth or a human combination or society. It hath fallen out sometimes that Papists, Protestants, Jews, and Turks may be embarked in one ship; upon which supposal I affirm that all the liberty of conscience that ever I pleaded for turns upon these two hinges: that none of the Papists, Protestants, Jews, or Turks be forced to come to the ships prayers or worship, nor be compelled [restrained] from their own particular prayers or worship, if they practice any.