Church Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Toleration means incomplete religious liberty.”

— John Bagnell Bury

The fundamental precept of liberty is toleration.

— Calvin Coolidge

What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which…

— Richard Mentor Johnson

It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another…

— George Washington

It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another…

— George Washington

“The liberty I contend for is more than toleration. The very idea of toleration is despicable; it supposes that some have a pre-eminence above…

— Denise A. Spellberg

“The theory of the relations between states and churches is bound up with the theory of Toleratio, and on that suject the eighteenth century…

— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle or doctrine;…

— William Penn

Religious liberty is a natural right and a highly sensitive issue for Americans, many of whose forefathers frequently came to the country to practice…

— Mollie Hemingway

The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights

— Thomas Jefferson

We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible right, and…

— John Stuart Mill