Top 5 Richard Mentor Johnson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and not a religious institution.”

— Richard Mentor Johnson

2. “Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence – by Christian meekness – by lives of temperance and holiness.”

— Richard Mentor Johnson

3. “What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.”

— Richard Mentor Johnson

4. “Their moral influence will then do infinitely more to advance the true interests of religion, than any measures which they may call on Congress to enact.”

— Richard Mentor Johnson

5. “Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.”

— Richard Mentor Johnson

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