As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian Religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen … it is declared … that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

As the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, — as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen — and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext, infringed.

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

There should not be the slightest discrepancy between one’s beliefs and one’s way of life.

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

We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people

We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.

There should be no civil war among the Chinese people and no friction across the Taiwan Strait.

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

There should be neither harming nor reciprocating harm.

Even when there is a struggle between nations it cannot be turned into a war of religions.

He who steadily observes the moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.

Ties between our two countries are literally, literally unbreakable.