Christian right Quotes · Page 2

When Pat Buchanan came out against the Beijing Women's Conference and there were women standing next to him, smiling and laughing when…

— Janeane Garofalo

. . . Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence…

— John Adams

The people who believe themselves to be on the left, and who defend the agents of Islam in the name of tolerance…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.

— Thomas Paine

There's a form of selling out. It's necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible…

— Shia LaBeouf

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

— James Madison

Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have…

— Thomas Jefferson

That both Muslim fundamentalists and the Christian right are today focusing their attempts to regain control in a rapidly changing world on…

— Riane Eisler

“As the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, — as it has in…

— Anonymous

We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and…

— Thomas Jefferson

When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not…

— Benjamin Franklin

If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises…

— Thomas Jefferson

Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .

— Thomas Jefferson

During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the…

— Al Sharpton

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.

— Thomas Jefferson

It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.

— George Washington

[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

— James Madison

I sometimes throw in a couple of swears just to keep the Christian right off my tail. I wouldn't want to be…

— Gary Gulman

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the…

— James Madison

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call…

— Peter L. Berger

I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of…

— John Adams

I can't tell Black people to fight a war that is Israel's war. What kind of leader will you be, or should…

— Louis Farrakhan

Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption

— James Madison

The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees.

— Michael Scanlon

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

— Thomas Jefferson