Religious Liberty Quotes

45 quotes by 36 authors

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil… — Samuel Adams
Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty. — Thomas Paine
This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled,… — Thomas Paine
It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren. — Sandra Day O'Connor
Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course. — Alexander Hamilton
[T]hat the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his… — Thomas Jefferson
I believe that the most essential element of our defense of freedom is our insistence on speaking out for the cause of religious liberty. — Ronald Reagan
We are gonna to have to choose as a nation between the homosexual agenda and freedom because the two cannot coexist. Every advance of the… — Bryan Fischer
The role of the federal government is to protect our liberties. That means they should protect our religious liberties to do what we want; our… — Ron Paul
Senate Bill 1062 does not address a specific and present concern related to religious liberty in Arizona. I have not heard of one example in… — Jan Brewer
The establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive which induced me to the Field - the object is attained - and it now… — George Washington
I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy… — John F. Kennedy
Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy. — James Russell Lowell
I know this was the soil on which I was born: but I have nothing to glorify this as my country. I have no pride… — Unknown Author
There is not a truth to be gathered from history more certain, or more momentous, than this: that civil liberty cannot long be separated from… — Joseph Story
The more people come together, the more borders will be opened and people and opinions get together, the more unrenouncable tolerance will be a fundamental… — Unknown Author
O poor New England! There is a deep laid plot against your civil and religious liberties, and they will be lost. Your golden days are… — George Whitefield
..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle. — George Washington
Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness. — William Henry Harrison

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