Authority Quote by Thomas Jefferson

The Free Exercise Clause at the very least was designed to guarantee freedom of conscience by prohibiting any degree of compulsion in matters of…

— Harry A. Blackmun

“We should be alert to oppose the potential significance of the fact that some government officials and public policy advocates are describing the First…

— Dallin H. Oaks

The free exercise clause of the constitution does not apply to any religion but Christianity. [because none of the other religions are legitimate religions.].

— Roy Moore

Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government.

— Thomas Jefferson

The First Amendment to the Constitution says government can't establish a religion, but neither can it limit the exercise of religion. And that's the…

— Tom Gjelten

The door of the Free Exercise Clause stands tightly closed against any government regulation of religious beliefs as such. Government may neither compel affirmation…

— William J. Brennan

I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This…

— Thomas Jefferson

A simple philosophy to stick to would be that religion and the promotion of religious opinion is none of the government's business. Congress can…

— Gene Garman

In our country we ask no toleration for religion and its free exercise, but we claim it as an inalienable right.

— Philip Schaff

The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation of church…

— Roxane Gay

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

— Jeremy Bentham

“freedom of religion has both private and public dimensions. It is the freedom to pray, to worship, to commune with one’s fellows of like…

— Timothy Shah