William Barr Quotes

America was founded to be a beacon of liberty, particularly religious liberty. The framers of our Constitution sought to preserve religious liberty to such an extent that they made it the first right protected in the Bill of Rights.

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

The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.

Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.

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.

No religious consensus is possible in the United States, and to impose one would be both unconstitutional and unjust.

There is little doubt that religious liberty is best exercised within the setting of the secular state.

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.

We cannot change the profound and resistless tendencies of the age toward religious liberty. It is our business to guide and control their applications.

What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights.

Today, the religion clauses of the 1st Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed.

Religious freedom in the American sense, incorporating the separation of church and state, has been the pivotal concept of the national development of the United States of America.

The First Amendment mandates government neutrality between religion and religion, and between religion and non-religion.

With us, the State is undoubtedly on solid ground in refusing to decide what type of religion is best for society. Society is left free to work out the problem. And here is a curious and pertinent matter for remark: that the Stale is the only department of civilization which, by common consent, is denied this privilege.

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.

Freedom of religion is a fundamental Constitutional principle. It's a founding principle of this country.

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

The Constitution has never treated religion as merely another private opinion that government can order people to keep to themselves.

We are a nation built on principles of freedom, and high on the list of freedoms is freedom of religious expression.

No power over the freedom of religion [is] delegated to the United States by the Constitution.

America didn't create religious liberty. Religious liberty created America.

Religious liberty must be protected in this country. It's a principle upon which we were founded.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

We Americans can be rightly proud of the fact that the right to the free and unfettered exercise of religion is a primary principle in the vision and founding of our country. It defines us as a people, and has uniquely contributed to making this nation great.