Top 5 Oliver Ellsworth Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Legislatures have no right to set up an inquisition and examine into the private opinions of men. Test-laws are useless and ineffectual, unjust and tyrannical.”

— Oliver Ellsworth

2. “The powers of congress must be defined, but their means must be adequate to the purposes of their constitution. It is possible there may be abuses and misapplications; still, it is better to hazard something than to hazard at all.”

— Oliver Ellsworth

3. “Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.”

— Oliver Ellsworth

4. “The Thirteen States are Thirteen Sovereign bodies.”

— Oliver Ellsworth

5. “The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty.”

— Oliver Ellsworth

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