...政府的合法权力只涉及行动，而不是意见，我以至高无上的敬意思考全体美国人民的行为，他们宣称他们的立法机关不应“制定任何尊重宗教信仰或禁止宗教自由行使的法律”。坚持国家代表良心权利的最高意志的表达，我将真诚地满意地看到那些倾向于恢复人类所有自然权利的情感的进展，确信人没有任何与社会义务相悖的自然权利。
(...legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' . Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.)
