Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

No religion can be built on force.

It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.

Religious liberty, hey, it's about religious liberty. And there has to be a melding of both. We're living in a time where you have to have a melding of both. But it's very unfair what they're doing to religion in this country.

The new United States took the lead among the nations of the earth in the establishment of religious freedom. That is one reason America has never had any religious wars or any religious persecutions.

If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

As a preacher who has spent significant time in churches and houses of worship all across the country, I can tell you firsthand that religious liberty and freedom are principles that can never be infringed upon.

I certainly do not support excluding faith from public life.

Religious freedom, often referred to as the first freedom, is of central import to the American experiment. As such it should feature prominently in U.S. foreign policy.

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.

Congress should not establish a religion and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any manner contrary to their conscience, or that one sect might obtain a pre-eminence, or two combined together, and establish a religion to which they would compel others to conform

At its core, America’s public religion is strongest when it speaks softly, most influential when it is the least prideful, and most convincing when it is the least coercive. We are not, and should never become, a theocracy; we are, instead, a democracy of believers—and crucial to a democracy of believers is fighting to the death to protect the right of anyone to choose not to believe. Crusades are for the insecure, literalism for the weak. Faith that is forced on others is not faith—conviction does not come from compulsion.

Americans did not come here to escape religion. The came here to escape established religion.

Nothing is more important to me, and nothing was more important to our founding fathers, than freedom of religion.

In Arkansas, we believe in religious freedom.

Alabama has a history of safeguarding our freedom of religion.

Religious freedom is a fundamental human right.

All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution.

Religious freedom does not mean freedom from religion.

Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.

We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart. In this enlightened Age and in this Land of equal liberty it is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest Offices that are known in the United States.

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Religious freedom is already protected in the United States. It's in our Constitution. It's in most state constitutions.

Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.