If thinking men would have the courage to think for themselves, and to speak what they think, it would be found they do not differ in religious opinions as much as is supposed.

The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error.

Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.

Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be.

The cutting of heads is become so much a la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on their shoulders.

The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.