Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption — James Madison Copy Share Image
Religious liberty should mean religious liberty for everyone, employees as well. — Neera Tanden Copy Share Image
The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
America didn’t create religious liberty. Religious liberty created America, — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle. — George Washington Copy Share Image
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What good is religious liberty if it can only be practiced behind stained-glass windows on Sunday? — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I have spent almost my entire adult life fighting to defend the religious liberty of every American to follow his or her… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Religious liberty must be protected in this country. It's a principle upon which we were founded. — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
All of our effort should be focused on protecting the religious liberties and freedom of conscience for those Americans that profoundly disagree… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
From the Founding Era onward, there was strong consensus about the centrality of religious liberty in the United States. — William Barr Copy Share Image
From the very beginning the president [of USA] had two very important principles that had to be reconciled. One principle is that… — Jacob Lew Copy Share Image
I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Rather than seeking to stem the tide, our educators, politicians, and judges aid the advance of godlessness. This cannot continue if our… — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
The Obama Administration's obsession with forcing mandates on the American people has now reached a new low by violating the conscience rights… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The Obama administration contends that starting a for-profit business means leaving religious liberty behind. The administration has effectively told the Supreme Court… — Josh Hawley Copy Share Image
I would not look with favor upon a President working to subvert the First Amendment's guarantees of religious liberty ... Neither do… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The American Humanist Association, whose slogan is 'Good without a God,' created the National Day of Reason with the Washington Area Secular… — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We call religious liberty our first freedom, for a reason of course, because it's listed first. And that's because the founders understood:… — Mike Johnson Copy Share Image
“Of all the Founders, Adams may have been the most churchgoing. But as a Unitarian, he did not believe in the Holy… — Ed Asner Copy Share Image
Senate Bill 1062 does not address a specific or present concern related to religious liberty in Arizona. I have not heard one… — Jan Brewer Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The issue of religious liberty is absolutely critical. America was founded on three different types of liberty: political liberty, economic liberty, and… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“We will suggest he is led to these conclusions by a distorted view of the social and legal landscape. Where exemptions give… — John Corvino Copy Share Image
“The modern mind is merely a blank about the philosophy of toleration; and the average agnostic of recent times has really had… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The theory of the relations between states and churches is bound up with the theory of Toleratio, and on that suject the… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch is not inspired in its astronomy, geology, geography, history or philosophy, if it is not inspired concerning slavery, polygamy,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank of every… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“A recent book by University of Chicago professor of philosophy and law Brian Leiter outlines what I believe will become the theoretical… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I perceive that it is far more practical to begin at the beginning and discuss theories. I see that the men who… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic prelate would tell the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
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