Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.

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 cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.

Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.

I only have the power of persuasion,

People of every ethnic group and religious persuasion have got to be given the right to live here,

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.