Religion Quote by Steven K. Green

“Colonial America was not settled out of a search for religious liberty, but it stumbled onto that principle just in time.”

— Steven K. Green

“With religious nonconformists outnumbering Anglicans after 1700, and economic motives eclipsing any sense of a religious mission, the colony adopted a moderate religious stance…

— Steven K. Green

“The Hudson Institute study found that religious liberty is powerfully associated with civil and political liberty, press freedom, economic freedom, and prolonged democracy.”

— Timothy Shah

Even back in its colonial days, America developed a reputation as a safe harbor for people with unusual or radical religious beliefs.

— Mitch Horowitz

“A person has to ignore the larger social, economic, political, and religious climate of early North American colonialism to advance the Christian nation myth.”

— David D. Flowers

America is an unusually religious nation.

— Rodney Stark

It might be said that religious freedom in the American sense, incorporating the separation of church and state, has been the pivotal concept of…

— Joseph Leon Blau

“In Connecticut we had freedom of religion so you could belong to any church you wanted, unless you were a Papist.”

— James Lincoln Collier

America didn’t create religious liberty. Religious liberty created America,

— Bobby Jindal

The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“In short, when it comes to colonial America, religious persecution—in the sense of persecution both based in religion and aimed at religion—was as American…

— John Corvino

America is a country founded on religious freedom and liberty.

— Hillary Clinton