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The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
A Vindication of Natural Society (1756)
Parties in religion and politics make sufficient discoveries concerning each other, to give a sober man a proper caution against them all.
A Vindication of Natural Society (1756)
But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance, it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
Speech on Conciliation with America (1774)
I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.
Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition.
Nothing is so fatal to Religion as indifference which is, at least, half Infidelity.
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)