Amendments Quote by William J. Brennan

Recent decades clearly demonstrate that the more secular our Public Schools become the less successful they become academically.

— David Barton

“. . .for the designated successor to royal authority, the Sovereign People, was no more capable than Louis XVI of reconciling freedom with power.”

— Simon Schama

If once in America the question of religious toleration was raised in defense of nonbelievers who dissented from religious orthodoxy, today it is raised…

— Alan Wolfe

“In 1786, Jefferson pitched a secular and public system of education for Virginia. He reasoned that “the tax which will be paid for this…

— Alan Taylor

“We ourselves have so long ceased to use it [the Christian worldview] except for the discussion of the moral, the liturgical, or the spiritual,…

— Harry Blamires

“The HHS rule blatantly denies the breadth of First Amendment protection, and violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, under which Congress promotes First Amendment…

— Andrew McCarthy

The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people from religion; that amendment was written to protect religion from government…

— Ronald Reagan

“each is inherently expansive and evangelistic.” The abortion mandate firestorm isn’t dying down – and it shouldn’t. This is government overreach at its worst…

— Floyd G Brown

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

— James Madison

I am committed to the First Amendment principles of religious freedom, tolerance, and diversity. Whether Mormon, Methodist, Jewish, or Muslim, Americans should be able…

— George W. Bush

I think it is appropriate that we pay tribute to this great constitutional principle which is enshrined in the First Amendment of the Constitution:…

— John F. Kennedy

I do believe that religious liberty, the First Amendment, gay rights, and transgender equality can all coexist. I'm also a constitutionalist, and we have…

— Nancy Mace

“Without Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence, there would have been no American revolution that announced universal principles of liberty. Without his participation…

— Christopher Hitchens

Between being praised and persecuted condoned and condemned I might understandably have become bewildered particularly at the brand of ethics sometimes displayed by the…

— Vashti McCollum

The ACLU's various policies regarding religious freedom in public schools are a revealing collection of anti-religious bias.

— F. LaGard Smith