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."
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.'"
In 1823, Queen Kaʻahumanu and six high chiefs requested to be baptized as Christians. The Queen Kaʻahumanu's government then banned prostitution and drunkenness ... In 1824, Chiefess Kapiolani, the cousin of Kamehameha I, defied the volcano goddess Pele by saying a Christian prayer, climbing down into the lava crater and returning unharmed, then eating the forbidden Ōhelo berries.
President George Washington stated in his First Annual Message, January 8, 1790: "To be prepared for War is the most effectual means of preserving peace."
Lucretia Mott stated: "The very first act of note that is mentioned when the disciples and apostles went forth ... Peter stood forth ... quoting the prophet Joel ... that 'the time is come, this day is fulfilled the prophecy, when it is said, I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,' etc. -- the language of the Bible is beautiful in its repetition -- 'upon my servants and my handmaidens I will pour out my spirit and they shall prophesy.'Now can anything be clearer than that?"
