I do not condone hostility toward any church simply to vent personal malice or umbrage.
Roger WilliamsMy 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.
Roger WilliamsGod requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state.
Roger WilliamsKings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them.
Roger Williams