...opposition to the great historical churches and to Islam, contained the germs of a distinct religion — the principle of liberty of conscience, and the repudiation...into a life of falsehood, hypocrisy, and habitual dissimulation, — the inevitable consequence of a system of religious intolerance, — belongs to...

...world to set up one special religious principle, and to enforce it so far as in him lay: . . . the principle of liberty of conscience and the repudiation...religious coercion. It must be clearly understood how greut the gulf is which divides the holders of this principle from those who reject it, both in faith...

...world to set up one special religious principle, and to enforce it so far as in him lay: . . . the principle of liberty of conscience and the repudiation...him to coerce other people into a life of falsehood . . . belongs to an essentially different religion from one who recognizes in the inviolability of...