Roger Williams Short Quotes

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

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

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All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive.

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God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state.

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Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world.

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God needeth not the help of a material sword of steel to assist the sword of the Spirit in the affairs of conscience.

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Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods.

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Reflect upon your own spirit, and believe Him that said it to His overzealous disciples, 'You know not what spirit you are of.'

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The magistrates of whom Paul wrote were natural, ungodly, persecuting, and yet lawful magistrates, to be obeyed in all lawful civil things.

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Such parents or children as aim at the gain and preferment of religion do often mistake gain and gold for godliness, godbelly for the true God, and some false for the true Lord Jesus.

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Enforced uniformity confounds civil and religious liberty and denies the principles of Christianity and civility. No man shall be required to worship or maintain a worship against his will.

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