Government has no right to hurt the hair of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.

Nobody...ought to be punished for religious opinions.

Government has no more to do with the religions opinions of men, than it has with the principles of mathematics. Let every man speak freely without fear, maintain the principles that he believes, worship according to his own faith, either one God, three Gods, no God, or twenty Gods; and let government protect him in so doing, i.e., see that he meets with no personal abuse, or loss of property, from his religious opinions. (p. 184)

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.

But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

What a man does in his closet ought not to affect the rights of third persons.

An intolerant sect has no right to complain when it is denied an equal liberty. … A person’s right to complain is limited to principles he acknowledges himself.

In a free society, a government has no business using the power of the law or the taxpayer's money to propagandize for some views and to prevent the transmission of others.

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

No man shall be blamed in the maintenance of his own religion.

Let each man say what he chooses; if because of this I am criticized by the ignorant, I shall not be chastised by the learned.

We are all entitled to our opinions and religious beliefs, but we are not entitled to make shit up and then use the shit we made up to oppress other people.