Quotes about Freedom
The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.
- George Washington
One can be coerced to church, but not to worship.
- Georgia Harkness
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
- Albert Camus
Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.
- John Adams
Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.
- A Powell Davies
Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
- Laurence Sterne
Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.
- Edmund Burke
The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate.
- James Madison
In France, religion had been considered the enemy of liberty, but in America, as George Washington expressed it, religion and morality were the 'twin pillars of freedom.'
- James Kennedy
Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.
- Thomas Jefferson
God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state.
- Roger Williams
We believe in separation of church and state, that there should be no unwarranted influence on the church or religion by the state, and vice versa.
- Jimmy Carter