What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate which would be oppression.
It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.
Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law.
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.
We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.