Cases Quote by Alexander Hamilton

In a free Government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case…

— James Madison

In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights.

— James Madison

In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. ...under the republican forms [of government],…

— James Madison

Civil rights are those which appertain to man in right of his being a member of society. Every civil right has for its foundation…

— Thomas Paine

It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the Civil authority…

— James Madison

Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious…

— James Madison

I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just…

— John Locke

Freedom arises from a multiplicity of sects, which pervades America, and is the best and only security for religious liberty in America.

— James Madison

No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments,…

— H. L. Mencken

“It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the Civil authority…

— James Madison

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage…

— Barack Obama

Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods.

— Roger Williams