Felicia Hemans Quotes

We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate. All are free to practice faith or not, and those who believe are free and should be free, to speak of and act on their belief.

The tendency of the spirit of the age is strong toward religious liberty.

Religious liberty is primarily a man's liberty to profess a faith different from that of the dominant religion, and to unite in public worship with those who share his faith.

America was founded by religious people; devout people who came here because they wanted freedom of religion, It's what made America different from every other country.

The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.

The state is there to respect the freedom of each citizen to believe in what he or she wants to believe in.

There is not a single instance in history in which civil liberty was lost and religious liberty preserved entire, If therefore we yield up our temporal property, we at the same time deliver the conscience into bondage.

In our Constitution, our bedrock principle, you know - indeed, what the nation was founded on - is an idea of freedom of religion: that we don't single out people because of their religion.

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

Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom. Freedom opens the windows of the soul so that man can discover his most profound beliefs and commune with God. Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone.

I think most people have no idea about what religious freedom means.

Alabama has a history of safeguarding our freedom of religion.

Freedom of religion does not entitle your religion to have a privileged position within the public sphere.

From the Founding Era onward, there was strong consensus about the centrality of religious liberty in the United States.

In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.

Freedom requires virtue. Virtue requires faith. And faith, in turn, requires freedom. You can't have coerced state-sanctioned religion. It has to be utterly free.

Religious liberty is the salt and light that has made us the great nation we are in a whole number of ways.

Religious liberty should mean religious liberty for everyone, employees as well.

Freedom has its roots in religion.

The only thing that is still free in this world is religion, which is why a lot of people "find it.

Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right.

The great thing about America is you can live according to your faith. If you're faith says don't use birth control then you don't use it.

Liberty is an acknowledgement of faith in God and his works.

We can be deeply thankful that we live in a land where reason and religion are friends and allies in the cause of liberty, joined against the evils and dangers of the day. And you can be certain of this: Any believer in religious freedom, any person who has knelt in prayer to the Almighty, has a friend and ally in me. And so it is for hundreds of millions of our countrymen: we do not insist on a single strain of religion - rather, we welcome our nation's symphony of faith.

The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.