All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.

An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

The gentleman cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, 'Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.'

We all agree that neither the Government nor political parties ought to interfere with religious sects. It is equally true that religious sects ought not to in…

While I concur with the Synod in the efficacy of prayer, and in the hope that our country may be preserved from the attacks of pestilence 'and that the judgmen…

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that t…