"You are further to declare that we hold sacred the rights of conscience, and may promise to the whole people, solemnly in our name, the free and undisturbed exercise of their religion. And... that all civil rights and the rights to hold office were to be extended to person's of any Christian denomination."

- Roger Sherman

"The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty."

- Dr. Benjamin Rush