Government Protection Quotes



Pen name: Jack Nipps. Leland was a Baptist evangelist who had worked with Thomas Jefferson and James Madison to secure Freedom of Conscience in Virginia. Many people think that ideas such as this are the views of irreligious men and women, but Leland was a devout, evangelical Baptist and Baptists suffered discrimination in early Colonial America. Freedom of conscience was essential for all religions who were not in the local majority. Tolerance essential. See 43,065.


Many who oppose taxation of all kinds are very distressed by this quotation from Washington. This was made 4 years before the Constitutional Convention. Those who oppose military conscription are also not enamored by this quotation.