“If I could now conceive that the general government might ever be so administered as to render the liberty of conscience insecure, I beg you will be persuaded, that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution… [E]very man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshiping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience.”

(Stokes, supra, p. 495. (Quoting George Washington))
from http://members.tripod.com/~candst/bjcpa1.htm (A Critique of David Barton’s “America’s Godly Heritage”)