Richard Mentor Johnson Quotes
- Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.
- Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.
- Among all the religious persecutions with which almost every page of modern history is stained, no victim ever suffered but for violation of what Government…
- It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and not…
- What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government…