Edwin Gaustad Quote

What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity.


Neither King Nor Prelate: Religion and the New Nation, 1776-1826 (ed. 1993)


What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity.

What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity.

What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity.

What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity.