Freedom Of Religion Quotes

On this page you will find all the quotes on the topic "Freedom Of Religion". There are currently 116 quotes in our collection about Freedom Of Religion. Discover the TOP 10 sayings about Freedom Of Religion!
The best sayings about Freedom Of Religion that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
  • The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.

  • We know that the Constitution wisely separates church from state, but remember: the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

  • Freedom of religion does not give you the right to physically or verbally assault people.

  • When the Chinese government tells its citizens that they can worship in a certain building on a certain day, but once they leave that building they must bow to the secular orthodoxy of the state, you have a cynical lie at work. They’ve substituted a toothless ‘freedom of worship’ for ‘freedom of religion’.

    "Raising Good Men". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. May 4, 2013.
  • The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

    Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1970, Library of America
  • Freedom of religion has been replaced by freedom from religion.

  • When immigrants come, the freedom to practice their faith is a guarantee. They may have trouble with their neighbors, but freedom of religion is part of the blueprint for America, and that is the recipe for the religious diversity that we have today.

    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.

  • Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disassociate without penalty. Belief or nonbelief was a matter of individual choice - a right underwritten in the basic charter of the nation's liberties.

  • Iran is a country that talks about, denies the Holocaust, promises to wipe out Israel, is engaged in terror throughout the world. This is a regime that is giving vent to the worst impulses that you see right now in the Middle East. They deny the rights of women, deny democracy, brutalize their own people, don't give freedom of religion.

    Country   Rights   Israel  
  • Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.

    Religious   Time   Art  
    Misattributed to Benjamin Rush in "Total Health and Restoration: A 180-Day Journey" by Terry Dorian, p. 49, 2002.
  • Islam is an ideology and there's a religious component to it that's radicalized and in some cases it masks itself behind that religion, especially in America, because of freedom of religion.

    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • President Obama understands that, as a nation founded by those who fled religious persecution, freedom of religion is central to who we are as Americans. Our rights are not given to us by government, they are endowed by our Creator.

    Denis McDonough's Speech on International Religious Freedom, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 12, 2012.
  • Lately the First Amendment has been interpreted to deny equal protection of the law to those who believe in God. The Constitution established freedom for religion, not freedom from religion!

  • Those who accept freedom of religion as a right are obligated by this acceptance to take the maintenance of freedom of religion as a duty.

  • It is absolutely vital that we do all we can to allow Americans to practice their religious ways, while simultaneously ensuring that no one's beliefs infringe upon those of others. We should also serve as champions of freedom of religion throughout the world.

    "EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Ben Carson: ‘Absolutely Vital’ Americans Stand Up For Indiana’s Religious Freedom Law" by Alex Swoyer, www.breitbart.com. March 30, 2015.
  • The fact that you are here tonight gathered together with us testifies to the fact you understand the need for this organization and the need for redoubling our efforts in this organization to try to assure that democracy as represented by the United States must depend upon a total freedom of religion, which is written into our Constitution, of course, and the mere suggestion that anyone could maintain that one's patriotism, one's devotion to one's country can be judged by one's religion is so vile, so vile that we have to take to the streets indeed and to put it aside.

  • No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever.

    Religious   Father   Men  
    Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”
  • The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights

    Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.593, Library of America
  • "It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to their governors the power of taking from them the trial by jury in civil cases, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce, the habeas corpus laws, and of yoking them with a standing army. This is a degeneracy in the principles of liberty... which I [would not have expected for at least] four centuries."

    Army   Law   Liberty  
  • The logic of freedom of religion implies freedom to be an atheist, even though, from a historical perspective, this has not been accepted in the Muslim world.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

    "The Agitator" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 5, 2006.
  • The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.

    "Wallace v. Jaffree, 472 U.S. 38". The U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 4, 1985.
  • I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land and not by the law of nations.

    Army   Omission   Rights  
    Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.337, Penguin
  • By a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall stipulate freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce against monopolies, trial by juries in all cases, no suspensions of the habeas corpus, no standing armies. These are fetters against doing evil which no honest government should decline.

    Mean   Army   Rights  
    Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.11, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the spirit of free worship has disappeared. And where religion and democracy have vanished, good faith and reason in international affairs have given way to strident ambition and brute force.

    Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy
  • We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

    Life   Change   Happiness  
    Declaration of Independence (1776).
  • I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America.

    Believe   Hands   America  
  • I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.

    John George Diefenbaker (1982). “The Wit & Wisdom of John Diefenbaker”, Hurtig Trade
  • People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.

    "A Teacher, a Student and a Church-State Dispute". Letter to the New York Times, query.nytimes.com. December 21, 2006.
Page 1 of 4
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • We hope our collection of Freedom Of Religion quotes has inspired you! Our collection of sayings about Freedom Of Religion is constantly growing (today it includes 116 sayings from famous people about Freedom Of Religion), visit us more often and find new quotes from famous authors!
    Share our collection of quotes on social networks – this will allow as many people as possible to find inspiring quotes about Freedom Of Religion!