Religious Liberty Testimony
GEORGE WASHINGTON. "Every man who conducts himself as a good citizen, is accountable alone to God for his religious faith, and should be protected in worshiping God according to the dictates of his own conscience." — To the Ephrata Community. JAMES MADISON: "The free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience, is something which every man may demand as a right, not something for which he must ask as a privilege." "There is not a shadow of right in the general government to intermeddle with religion. Its least interference with it would be a most flagrant usurpation." U. S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPORT, 1830: "Every religious sect, however meek in its origin, commenced the work of persecution as soon as it acquired political power."