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Religious Freedom Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University…
- The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].
- In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.
- Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His…
- The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to repeal [an act…
- Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And…
- The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.
- I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of…
- We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
- I have great hope that some patriotic spirit will, at a favorable moment, call (up the law for religious freedom) and make it the keystone…
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- Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father… — Thomas Jefferson
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- The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy]. — Thomas Jefferson
- In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object. — Thomas Jefferson
- Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most… — Thomas Jefferson
- The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to… — Thomas Jefferson
- Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as… — Thomas Jefferson
- Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of… — John Quincy Adams
- We have the most religious freedom of any country in the world, including the freedom not to believe. — William J. Clinton
- Throughout our history Americans have put their faith in God and no one can doubt that we have been blessed for it.… — Ronald Reagan
- I am committed to the First Amendment principles of religious freedom, tolerance, and diversity. Whether Mormon, Methodist, Jewish, or Muslim, Americans should… — George W. Bush