“Whatever the spiritual interpretation may be of the remarkable prophecy in Revelations concerning the “mark of the beast,” without which no man was to buy or sell, it is clear that it has received a most singular realistic fulfilment in modern Christendom, the nations of which are agreed in marking themselves, and even their helpless infants, at the earliest possible age, with the foul beast-mark of vaccination …” — Marcy C. Hume-Rothery
“Poisoning and spreading infection, are by the penal Laws of England Felony. Inoculation falls in with the first without any Contradiction; and if a Person of so weak a Constitution, that any the least Illness may prove fatal to him, should be inoculated, and suffer but the tenth Part of what several of the Inoculated have done, he must unavoidably perish, and his Inoculator deemed guilty of willful Poisoning.” — Dr. William Douglass, 1722
“I can obey the laws of my country only so far as they are in harmony with the laws of God, and when any law interferes with my duty to my family or my God, I feel no longer compelled to obey it; and this law of compulsory vaccination unquestionably comes into collision with both.”
“Accordingly we turn with hope and with remonstrance to the religious bodies of Great Britain, and summon them one and all to a religious war against vaccination. They are the final refuges against natural panic, which is the ground on which vaccination lives. Let them teach men to be brave in the cleanliness and purity which come from God. They are the centres of rebuke to evil and of encouragement to good.”
“This Practice opens a Door to innumerable Villanies and Murders, in the Case of Infants, Orphans, &c. giving Opportunity to several Persons, and in several Circumstances; some of which I shall mention, to murder innocent Children, committed to their Keeping, with Impunity, and without the Murtherer being liable to any Punishment or Prosecution: And as this is a Mischief, which merits to be considered very seriously, and is worthy the Cognisance of the Legislature.” – The New Practice of Inoculating the Small-Pox Consider’d (1722)