“Their Solemn League and Covenant was designed to protect the liberty of men’s consciences,” he said, “but it has come to mean only the liberty to bind men to their own convictions. And they scream like wrathful vultures because I’ll not permit my conscience or my mind to be bound by other men, as mortal as myself, who have taken the word of God to themselves and think to make all others worship as they see fit.”
