Quotes about Freedom
Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot and ought not to be forced.
— Philip Schaff
For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit.
— Henri Nouwen
Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.
— Miroslav Volf
Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
In our country we ask no toleration for religion and its free exercise, but we claim it as an inalienable right.
— Philip Schaff
Imagine there's no heaven... it's easy if you try.
— John Lennon
Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.
— Thomas Jefferson
Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
— Elbert Hubbard
Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
— Ben Carson
You're only as sick as your secrets.
— Rick Warren
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
— Tertullian