God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state.
Roger WilliamsAll men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive.
Roger WilliamsI do not condone hostility toward any church simply to vent personal malice or umbrage.
Roger Williams'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.
Roger WilliamsIn my plea for freedom to all consciences in matters merely of worship, I have impartially pleaded for freedom of the consciences of the Papists themselves, the greatest enemies and persecutors in Europe of the saints and truths of Jesus; yet I have pleaded for no more than is their due and right. Whatever else shall be the consequence of this plea, it shall stand for a monument and testimony against them and be an aggravation of their former, present, and future cruelties against Christ Jesus the Head, and all that uprightly love Him, His true disciples and followers.
Roger Williams