All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive.
Roger WilliamsCivil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods.
Roger WilliamsWhen they have opened a gap in the ... wall of separation between the Garden of the Church and the wildernes of the world, God hath ever ... made his Garden a Wildernesse.
Roger WilliamsThe ministry or service of prophets and witnesses, mourning and prophesying in sackcloth, God has directly commissioned and upheld all during the reign of the beast and antichrist of Rome. This witness is probably near finished, and the bloody storm of slaughter is yet to be expected and prepared for.
Roger Williams