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

- Richard Mentor Johnson

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 en…

- Richard Mentor Johnson

Among all the religious persecutions with which almost every page of modern history is stained, no victim ever suffered but for violation of what Gov…

- Richard Mentor Johnson

What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, o…

- Richard Mentor Johnson

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 religio…

- Richard Mentor Johnson

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

- Richard Mentor Johnson