Roger Sherman Quotes

#1. Congress has no power to make any religious establishments.

Roger Sherman

#2. The Government made by a number of Sovereign States.

Roger Sherman

#3. True Christians are assured that no temptation (or trial) shall happen to them but what they shall be enabled to bear; and that the grace of Christ shall be sufficient for them.

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

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

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#6. We were driven off like rats in five minutes.

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#7. Government is instituted for those who live under it.

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

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

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#10. When you are in the minority, talk; when you are in the majority, vote.

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#11. 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.

Roger Sherman

#12. If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be liable to be deceived by flatterers and pretenders to patriotism.

Roger Sherman