While all men within our territories are protected in worshipping the Deity …

While all men within our territories are protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of their consciences; it is rationally expected from them in return, that they will be emulous of evincing the sanctity of their professions by the innocence of their lives, and the beneficence of their actions: for no man, who is profligate in his morals, or a bad member of the civil community, can possibly be a true Christian, or a credit to his own religious society. George Washington

I have never been so well pleased, as when I could shift …

I have never been so well pleased, as when I could shift power from my own, on the shoulders of others; nor have I ever been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Monsieur Destutt de Tracy, January 26, 1811, reprinted in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, XIII, ed. A. E. Bergh (1853) (1743-1826)