Richard Mentor Johnson Quotes

• 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.

  Richard Mentor Johnson

  Religious, Rights, Government

  "Discovering the American Past: A Look at the Evidence, Volume I: To 1877". Book by William Bruce Wheeler, Volume 2, p. 149, January 1, 2011.

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• 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 a religious institution.

  Richard Mentor Johnson

  Religious, Government, Church

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• 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 denominated the law of God. To prevent a similar train of evils in this country, the Constitution has wisely withheld from our Government the power of defining the divine law.

  Richard Mentor Johnson

  Country, Religious, Government

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

  Richard Mentor Johnson

  Christian, Deeds, Holiness

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

  Richard Mentor Johnson

  Religious, Constitution, Persuasion

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• Their moral influence will then do infinitely more to advance the true interests of religion, than any measures which they may call on Congress to enact.

  Richard Mentor Johnson

  Atheism, May, Moral

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