Consider England. Within a few score years how many unsettling changes in religion has the whole kingdom made, according to the change of its rulers, in the various religions which they embraced.

Sometimes the truth is stupid.

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

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.

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.

Reflect upon your own spirit, and believe Him that said it to His overzealous disciples, 'You know not what spirit you are of.'

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