God requireth not a uniformity of religion.

The greatest crime is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.

It is less hurtful to compel a man to marry someone whom he does not love than to follow a religion in which he does not believe.

God is too large to be housed under one roof.

The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.

When they have opened a gap in the ... wall of separation between the Garden of the Church and the wildernes of the world, God hath ever ... made his Garden a Wildernesse.

The human body heals itself and nutrition provides the resources to accomplish the task.

When in doubt, use nutrition first.

That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it.

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.

A false worship will not hurt the civil state if the worshipper breaks no civil law.

I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.

I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district - with per pupil funds going with him.

You never get an angry man suddenly breaking into a whistle.

Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.