Roger Williams

But do you recall Roger Williams and the founding of Rhode Island?

Texas Faith: Should religious groups advocate for specific candidates? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010

If I had done so, in connection with allusions to Mather, upon the same principle it would have been necessary to do it, whenever an opinion was expressed of others, such as Roger Williams, or Hugh Peters, or Richard Baxter.

Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply Charles Wentworth Upham 1838

Early American intellectuals such as Roger Williams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Abraham Lincoln read Locke and other thinkers of the European Enlightenment and founded the most successful liberal democracy in world history.

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And though they often had Draconian rules and regulations (thus causing some to flee to settle new areas, such as Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson did when they founded communities in present-day Rhode Island), there was enough land at that time for exit, if not voice and loyalty in their own communities (to follow Hirschman).

Libertarian Blog Place 2008

"Roger Williams," said Grandfather, "did not keep possession of the chair

True Stories of History and Biography Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

In that same year Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, saw in the dances of the Indians a near and dangerous temptation, for after once being in their Houses, and beholding what their worship was, I durst never be an eye witnesse . . . lest I should have been partaker of Satans inventions and worships, contrary to Ephes.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, for example, worried that “worldly corruptions… might consume the churches if sturdy fences against the wilderness were not maintained.”

The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010

By contrast, Mr. Chafee, an Episcopalian, believes "religion is very private" and, like Rhode Island founder Roger Williams, that government and religion shouldn't mix.

The Price of Independence Jennifer Levitz 2011

It's no coincidence that the founder of the first Baptist church in America, Roger Williams, was also the founder of the first colony to embrace religious freedom for all, Rhode Island.

Robert Marus: Richard Land Dishonors The Baptist Tradition By Not Standing Up For Religious Minorities Robert Marus 2011

Thanks to that attitude, another Baptist must be flipping in his casket right along with Roger Williams et al.

Robert Marus: Richard Land Dishonors The Baptist Tradition By Not Standing Up For Religious Minorities Robert Marus 2011