All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive.

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.

All who are entrusted with spiritual and temporal talents must lay them out for the Lord and Master's advantage.

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

If the civil magistrate be a Christian, a disciple or follower of the meek Lamb of God, he is bound to be far from destroying the bodies of men for refusing to receive the Lord Jesus Christ: for otherwise he would be ignorant of the sweet end of Christ's coming, which was to save the bodies and souls of men.