Building Quote by Pope Benedict XVI

Freedom of religion requires not only freeing religion from undue government regulation and interference. It also requires freeing religion from discrimination and from vile…

— William Barr

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

Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine…

— Thomas Jefferson

That Amendment requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not require the…

— Hugo Black

Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around.

— Gore Vidal

The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion. It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but…

— Rocco Buttiglione

Government...may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or…

— Abe Fortas

Today courts wrongly interpret separation of church and state to mean that religion has no place in the public arena, or that morality derived…

— Dinesh D'Souza

The obligation of the state is to guarantee freedom of religion, and that implies dealing with all of them on an equal footing.

— Ricardo Alarcon

The state, frankly, could care less. Historically, the state has been able to use any religious point of view for its own ends. .…

— Peter McWilliams

Freedom is won by relegating religion to a purely private sphere remote from the body politic. In fact, the establishment of a free society…

— William Anthony Donohue

Freedom requires religion in society, not in individuals.

— Mitt Romney