Quotes from Roger Sherman

All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.

Government is instituted for those who live under it.

The Government made by a number of Sovereign States.

The question is, not what rights naturally belong to man, but how they may be most equally and effectually guarded in society.

We were driven off like rats in five minutes.

The Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war.

Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us.

I believe a visible church to be a congregation of those who make a credible profession of their faith in Christ, and obedience to him, joined by the bond of the covenant.