Quotes about Religious freedom
The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
So as a Christian, I am free to claim the good, the true, the holy, wherever and whenever I find it. I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God's and everything in it.
- Rob Bell
Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics.
- George Washington
The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights
- Thomas Jefferson
The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.
- James Buchanan
Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.
- John Adams
Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
In our country we ask no toleration for religion and its free exercise, but we claim it as an inalienable right.
- Philip Schaff
As a result, socialism and communism, in particular, use government to suppress religion to such a degree as to leave the one true God out entirely.
- Tony Evans