There goes many a ship to sea, with many hundred souls in one ship, whose weal and woe is common, and is a true picture of a commonwealth or a human …

- Roger Williams

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.

- Roger Williams

There is no regularly constituted church of Christ on earth, nor any person qualified to administer any church ordinances; nor can there be until new…

- Roger Williams

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

- Roger Williams

But who is to decide who truly fears the Lord? The magistrate has no power to enforce religious demands. The laws of the First Table of the Ten Comma…

- Roger Williams

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

- Roger Williams

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

- Roger Williams

Forced worship stinks in God's nostrils

- Roger Williams

God is too large to be housed under one roof.

- Roger Williams