Authority Quote by Baron d'Holbach

All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that no…

— George Mason

“No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship or ministry or shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions…

— John Paul Davis

Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many…

— Immanuel Kant

There are those, of course, who deny that they need any form of authority. They are the popular atheists and agnostics. Such men say…

— Cornelius Van Til

Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

— Emile Durkheim

The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything…

— Voltaire

We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no man's right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society, and that Religion is wholly…

— James Madison

In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.

— Henry David Thoreau

“The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the men which it forms”

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the…

— Calvin Coolidge

Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great…

— George Eliot