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“The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.”

“Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God; and that those principles of liberty are as unalterable as human nature and our terrestrial, mundane system.”

“I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.”

“My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just”

“If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . . . . If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws.”

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

“The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.”

“In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.”

“Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance.”

“Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.”

“It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three; and yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one.”

“Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.”

“I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society. One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a part of the Common Law... There never has been a period in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying its foundations.”

“It is contrary to the principles of reason and justice that any should be compelled to contribute to the maintenance of a church with which their consciences will not permit them to join, and from which they can derive no benefit; for remedy whereof, and that equal liberty as well religious as civil, may be universally extended to all the good people of this commonwealth.”

“No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever.”

“We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.”

“I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”

“It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God.”

“Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped.”

“Question with boldness even the existence of a god.”

“Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiment in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.”

“Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, creator of the Universe. That he governs it by his Providence. That he ought to be worshiped. That the most acceptable service we render him is doing good to his other children. That the soul of Man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this.”