Freedom Quote by Jon Meacham

“Mark my words, when a government pretends that it is the highest judge of its own actions, the result is not freedom as Jefferson…

— Orson Scott Card

“A religiously ambiguous Thomas Jefferson is not useful to the Christian right.”

— Matt McCook

'The people are the only sure reliance, for the preservation of our LIBERTY!' Thomas Jefferson

— Andrew Guzaldo

“Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion? { Letter to Thomas Jefferson , May 19, 1821 }”

— John Adams

“But this does not detract from the wisdom of his faith in the people and his constant insistence that they be left to manage…

— Calvin Coolidge

“The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom written by Thomas Jefferson proclaimed: Be it enacted by General Assembly that no man shall be compelled to…

— David Akadjian

The first phrase of the First Amendment spoke to the freedom uppermost in Jefferson's mind when it provided that, 'Congress shall make no law…

— Edwin Gaustad

“Yet, if the phrase “separation of church and state” appears in no official founding document, then what is the source of that phrase? And…

— David Barton

“The phrase ‘separation of church and state,’ which appears in no founding document (only in a letter written by Thomas Jefferson), means that America…

— Dennis Prager

“I have also frequently heard people question the faith of Thomas Jefferson. However, in his 1781 notes on the state of Virginia, he wrote,…

— Ben Carson

“...legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared…

— Thomas Jefferson

“For Jefferson, power came before freedom. Indeed, power creates freedom, not the other way around—as the powerless are taught.”

— Ibram X. Kendi