Discussion Quote by James Madison

Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?

— William Bennett

On religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs.…

— Barry Goldwater

Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his…

— Noah Webster

It's name is Public opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

— Mark Twain

Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“If we truly understand the full stature of the name by which we then are called, we will live different lives. No longer will…

— Theodore M. Burton

One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain. Reverence for the…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“One of the many problems with the concept of protecting religion from defamation is that ideas (including religious ideas) cannot be defamed—only people can…

— Dave Niose

How sacredly do [we] regard the good name of another?...Do we pass on spicy bits of entertaining conversation...repeating rumors and stories which have not…

— Howard W. Hunter

“The chief trouble with religion has been too much dependence upon names or words. People fail to discriminate. They do not think. Generally people…

— Luther Burbank

If you want to make the government take a religious side, then make the case, it should be Christian republic.

— Rachel Maddow

In my judgment, while it is the duty of Congress to respect to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen…

— James A. Garfield