[Religious liberty was] in its nature an inalienable right ... because the opinions of men, depending only upon the evidence contemplated by their minds, cannot follow the dictates of other men.
ATTRIBUTION:
James Madison (1751–1836), U.S. president. “Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessment” (1785). W.T. Hutchinson et al., The Papers of James Madison, vol. 8, p. 299, Chicago and Charlottesville, Virginia (1962-1991).
