Quotes about Religious freedom

Restricting the religious impulses of Americans is precisely like killing free enterprise with too many regulations.

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

It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America great - but rather our reliance in the law of liberty and the religious law God has planted in us.

Those of us living in countries where religious freedom is allowed should regularly give thanks to God for that freedom.

For us that is not a particularly striking event, but for a Muslim country to allow a Christian school to remain open when others were closed was indeed unusual.

I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.

Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of things - they clearly rejected the idea of an established church.

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act in Indiana does not give anyone the right to deny services to anyone in this state. It is simply a balancing test used by our federal courts and jurisdictions across the country for more than two decades.

I believe that all people should be free to believe and worship as they please. I also believe that people should be free to act in ways that I consider ethically wrong. But there is at least one important restriction on this freedom that every just society must maintain. My religious and ethical freedom does not include the right to kill other people.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.