Freedom Quote by Timothy Shah

“There is not, there cannot be, a State without religion. Take the freest States in the world—the United States of America or the Swiss…

— Mikhail Bakunin

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

— Warren E. Burger

“Political liberty—that is, the ability of societies to rule themselves—does not depend only on the degree to which a society can mobilize opposition to…

— Francis Fukuyama

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

The Constitution treats religious belief as uniquely special, uniquely central to the dignity of the human person, and, for that reason, beyond the power…

— Josh Hawley

“Freedom can never yield its fullness of blessings so long as the law or its administration places the smallest obstacle in the pathway of…

— James A. Garfield

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

“. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well as with…

— Jeremy Bentham

“More people than ever before look to government as their best chance of securing well-being rather than as their inevitable enemy. Politics as a…

— John Morris Roberts

We urge all people to recognize that religious freedom requires not trying to use the power of government to force religious ideas on others.

— Ed Buckner

We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even…

— Gustav Heinemann