According to the Dictates of their Consciences

"every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the deity according the dictates of his own conscience"

George Washington, May, 1789, Reply to an Address Sent by the General Committee of the United Baptist Churches in Virginia, "A Documentary History of Religion in America to 1877" p 247, edited by Edwin S. Gaustad, Mark A. Noll, published 2003 Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company)


"all men within our territories are protected in worshipping the Deity according the dictates of their consciences"

George Washington, May 26, 1789, Reply to an Address Sent by the General Assembly of Prebyterian Churches in the United States, "A Documentary History of Religion in America to 1877" p 247, edited by Edwin S. Gaustad, Mark A. Noll, published 2003 Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company)

Similar quotes are here to the Quakers, Catholics, and Jews.