The U.K. has some of the best protections in law for…

Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that,…

— Floyd Abrams

In America, we have long stood by the principle that the protections of the law are not meant just for some.

— Carolyn Maloney

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

One of the genuine phenomenons over the past four decades has been the liberal community's steadfast insistence that God should be barred from the…

— Armstrong Williams

Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and…

— Mario Cuomo

The only true order is founded on Biblical Law. All law is religious in nature, and every non-Biblical law-order represents an anti-Christian religion.

— R.J. Rushdoony

The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be acting in…

— Frederic Bastiat

“Prosecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly-marked feature of all law-religious, or religions established by law.…

— Thomas Paine

A simple philosophy to stick to would be that religion and the promotion of religious opinion is none of the government's business. Congress can…

— Gene Garman

The idea of America's religious groups fighting over the limited public money to be made available takes us down the road towards the kind…

— David Saperstein

“When religious groups in a conflict eliminate the personal element and perceive themselves as representatives of collectives, heir actions tend to become more "radical"…

— David R. Smock

In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.

— Nancy Pearcey

Historically, religious groups have been most effective when they have stood apart from government and critiqued the performance of government in light of their…

— Edd Doerr

“All religious groups in the United States include significant numbers of liberals; indeed, most have a higher percentage of religious liberals than Christianity.”

— Paul B. Rasor

While few religious leaders and scholars would doubt the commonalities that exist among the various religious groups, the followers of these religions unfortunately struggle…

— Alcee Hastings