The Pledge of Allegiance was founded on ideals of religious freedom, and has been a valuable part of our national life for… — Cindy Hyde-Smith Copy Share Image
Despite much talk in this land about religious freedom, churches and their schools now confront grave difficulties. — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Under the rubric of religious freedom, we respect the right to worship differently much more than the right to worship not at… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
I think it's a bill that puts a high priority on religious freedom and recognizes that as a part of the balance. — Asa Hutchinson Copy Share Image
Muslim immigrants like himself encounter prejudice here [in U.S.] but also find political and religious freedom. — Tom Gjelten Copy Share Image
Regrettably, the Obama administration has chosen to take a lackadaisical approach to religious freedom, and allowed IRFA to fade into the background. — Mark Meadows Copy Share Image
Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
Religious freedom certainly means the right to worship God, individually and in community, as our consciences dictate. But religious liberty, by its… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakeable. The principle that people of all faiths are welcome in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Her [Jurdge Sandra Day O'Connor] judgment has also been critical in protecting our environmental rights. She joined in 5-4 majorities affirming reproductive… — Patrick Leahy Copy Share Image
Because we hold it for 'a fundamental and undeniable truth', that religion or 'the duty which we owe to our Creator' and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx,… — Dan Rosensweig Copy Share Image
That sacred space of conscience where you can exercise your rights in terms of religious freedom and deeply-held, reasonable beliefs is the… — Jeff Fortenberry Copy Share Image
As Canadians who proudly demand the equal treatment of minorities, religious freedom, gender equality and basic human rights for its citizens -… — Jagmeet Singh Copy Share Image
No, you can't deny women their basic rights and pretend it's about your 'religious freedom'. If you don't like birth control, don't… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Religious freedom, then, is the freedom of human will, reason, and conscience, of human souls and spirits, to explore and embrace whatever… — Timothy Shah Copy Share Image
“As the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, — as it has in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth --… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“When the boys were little, I used to take them to the gleaming white Jefferson Memorial at the edge of the Tidal… — Khizr Khan Copy Share Image
Churchmen are quick to defend religious freedom; lawyers were never so universally aroused as by President Roosevelt's Court bill; newspapers are most… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
The First Amendment of the US Constitution ... is an eloquent repudiation of the First Commandment's prohibition of religious freedom. It is… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
“The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom written by Thomas Jefferson proclaimed: Be it enacted by General Assembly that no man shall be… — David Akadjian Copy Share Image
“Even a superstitious man has certain inalienable rights. He has a right to harbor and indulge his imbecilities as long as he… — S.T. Joshi Copy Share Image
“For a century and a half, people have wondered what factors - genetic and environmental - were especially significant in the evolution… — Marianne Thormählen Copy Share Image
So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Religious freedom in an open society has the best prospects of flourishing to the extent that it expresses itself as freedom of… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
To increase aid to the Pakistan government when religious freedom is not upheld is tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy. — Keith O'Brien Copy Share Image
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act extends religious liberty to corporations without regard to their for-profit and non-profit status. — Josh Hawley Copy Share Image
The concept of religious freedom is largely ignored in the curriculum of our nation's public schools. — Charles Haynes Copy Share Image
The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Your greatest weapon is your MIND! Lock and load it with the greatest ammunition; EDUCATION. And protect it with your best defense;… — Marck E. Estemil Copy Share Image
Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The right to religious freedom is not a gift of the state or a gift of a group. — Suharto Copy Share Image
I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth —… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We have the most religious freedom of any country in the world, including the freedom not to believe. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“Any religion that does not evolve with time, either gets destroyed or destroys the world.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Making Saudi Arabia a world judge on women's rights and religious freedom would be like naming a pyromaniac as the town fire… — Hillel Neuer Copy Share Image