Father Quote by William E. Simon

“The Pilgrims thought of liberty as the freedom to do what is right, not to decide what is right. In their view, the persecution…

— Robert Tracy McKenzie

They [the Pilgrims] believed in freedom of thought for themselves and for all other people who believed exactly as they did.

— Will Cuppy

Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the…

— Pete Seeger

I know this was the soil on which I was born: but I have nothing to glorify this as my country. I have no…

— Augustus Washington

But the closer we study their lives, and the better we know their deeds, the more profound is our admiration and the greater our…

— Chauncey Depew

“They were too focused on their own inner lives to appreciate the subtleties of character that might have alerted them to the true motives…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“As the American colonies moved toward declaring independence from Great Britain, the Scots -Irish were all but unanimous in their desire to be free…

— James Webb

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

[The founding fathers] believed that freedom of expression included religious views and beliefs, so long as the government did not force people to worship…

— John Cornyn

“THE PILGRIMS HAD BEEN DRIVEN by fiercely held spiritual beliefs. They had sailed across a vast and dangerous ocean to a wilderness where, against…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false…

— Thaddeus Stevens

“The liberty I contend for is more than toleration. The very idea of toleration is despicable; it supposes that some have a pre-eminence above…

— Denise A. Spellberg