Madison introduced a Bill in the Virginia Legislature, October 31, 1785, for Punishing Disturbers of Religious Worship, which passed in 1789: "If any person shall of purpose, maliciously, or contemptuously, disquiet or disturb any congregation assembled in any church ... he may be put under restraint ... and upon conviction ... shall be further punished by imprisonment."
Author Don Feder wrote in the article "Observations and Fulminations-The French Revolution and Jacobins in Our Streets (July 13, 2018): "The Reign of Terror wasn’t an episode of the French Revolution, it was the Revolution. In 'Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution,' historian Simon Schama writes, 'The terror … was not just an unfortunate side effect … it was the Revolution’s source of collective energy ... From the very beginning, violence was the motor of the revolution.'"
President Reagan addressed the March for Life, January 22, 1985:“I’m convinced, as I know you are, that our response to the 12th anniversary of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton must be to rededicate ourselves to ending the terrible national tragedy of abortion.”
Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom: "Almighty God hath created the mind free, and ... all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments ... tend only to begat habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone."
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., reflected on concept in Romans 13 in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” 1963: "One may well ask: 'How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?' The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust ... How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God."
