I have ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect.

[Religious liberty was] in its nature an inalienable right ... because the opinions of men, depending only upon the evidence contemplated by their minds, cannot follow the dictates of other men.

Because the bill in reserving a certain parcel of land in the United States for the use of said Baptist Church comprises a principle and a precedent for the appropriation of funds of the United States for the use and support of religious societies, contrary to the article of the Constitution which declares that "Congress shall make no law respecting a religious establishment."

Conscience is the most sacred of all property.

Torrents of blood have been spilt in the world in vain attempts of the secular arm to extinguish religious discord, by proscribing all differences in religious opinions.

The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate.

In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights.

Freedom arises from a multiplicity of sects, which pervades America, and is the best and only security for religious liberty in America.

Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect.