Evidence Quote by James Madison

It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.

— Thomas Clarkson

Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural…

— Charles James Fox

There is no liberty to men whose passions are stronger than their religious feelings; there is no liberty to men in whom ignorance predominates…

— Henry Ward Beecher

All men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write…

— L. Ron Hubbard

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

Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilised country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when women tried…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They…

— Herbert Hoover

Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country, above all…

— Patrick Henry

Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right…

— Norman Cousins

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

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

— Aristotle

The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious beliefs than…

— Thomas Jefferson