All time Quote by John Lancaster Spalding

Two hundred years ago the forces of freedom challenged this idea. The children of the new enlightenment rose up to defy the tyranny of…

— Sherwin Wine

“First, societies lacking full religious liberty lack a critical restriction on state power. When citizens are free to have an ultimate commitment to something…

— Timothy Shah

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

— Noam Chomsky

The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.

— Mary Parker Follett

“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity…

— Christopher Hitchens

The safest way for a state is to lay down the rule that religion is comprised solely in the exercise of charity and justice,…

— Baruch Spinoza

That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought Religion necessary…

— Benjamin Franklin

And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be…

— Christopher Dawson

The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.

— Thomas Jefferson

“First of all, the people has a right to passive resistance. The tyrannical law that is a law against reason, a law not directed…

— Heinrich A. Rommen

The State may justify a limitation on religious liberty by showing it is essential to accomplish an overriding governmental interest.

— Warren E. Burger

You can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the people --…

— William Allen White