Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself.” ~ John Adams (1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US PresidentSource: letter to his brother-in-law, Richard Cranch, August 29, 1756, explaining how his independent opinions would create much difficulty in the ministry, in Edwin S Gaustad, Faith of Our Fathers: Religion and the New Nation (1987) p. 88, quoted from Ed and Michael Buckner, "Quotations that Support the Separation of State and Church"