The traditional Jeffersonian principle of religious…

America is a nation that is founded on the principle of religious freedom. That is the reason this country exists.

— Rush Limbaugh

But I think it is also important that we pay tribute and acknowledge another great principle, and that is the principle of religious conviction.…

— John F. Kennedy

I think it is appropriate that we pay tribute to this great constitutional principle which is enshrined in the First Amendment of the Constitution:…

— John F. Kennedy

Is the appointment of Chaplains to the two Houses of Congress consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom? In…

— James Madison

Nondiscrimination is a great American principle. It's a core American principle, as is religious freedom. When you have two important American principles coming into…

— Charles Haynes

“... But besides the danger of a direct mixture of Religion & civil Government , there is an evil which ought to be guarded…

— James Madison

“As long as we accept the principle that religious faith must be respected simply because it is religious faith, it is hard to withhold…

— Richard Dawkins

As long as we accept the principle that religious faith must be respected simply because it is religious faith, it is hard to withhold…

— Richard Dawkins

[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.

— Elie Wiesel

Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides…

— Sam Harris

A cooperative enterprise is the key alternative to a traditional capitalist enterprise. All the workers, whatever they do inside an enterprise, have to be…

— Richard D. Wolff

History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by democratic methods…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts will appear…

— Salvador Dali

One reason--perhaps the chief--of the virility of the Roosevelts is [their] very democratic spirit. They have never felt that because they were born in…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt