Stephen Baldwin Quotes

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion—except for the sect that can win political power.

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

The religion that has to be supported by law is without value, not only, but a fraud and a curse. The religious argument that has to be supported by a musket is hardly worth making.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

I don’t see a bit of danger from us having an established religion.

When the government says to you that they want to help you be more religious, you want to run away from them as fast as possible.

Look not to the size of cathedrals or even to the words on the statute books for proof of the reality of religious freedom. Ask what is the fate of the Protestant in Spain, the Jew in Saudi Arabia, the Arab in Israel, the Catholic in Poland or the atheist in the United States?

Zealous groups threaten to infringe civil liberties when they seek government support to impose their own religious views on non-adherents. This has taken many forms, including attempts to introduce organized prayer in public schools, to outlaw birth control and abortion, and to use public tax revenues to finance religious schools.

... the loathsome combination of church and state.

Our religious freedoms are under constant attack from a variety of groups who seek to undermine our constitutional rights and threaten our founding principles.

To speak against religion (the Christian) is breaking down the bond of good government.

I tell fundamentalists that there is no question of them attacking our Republic's foundations.

While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well.

We have taken God out of our education system. We have taken Him out of government. You have lawyers that sue you every time you mention the name of Jesus Christ in any public forum.

I cannot reconcile monitoring certain people for no reason other than their religion with the freedom of religion we have here in America.

The Roman Catholics must know as well as we do that 'Popery' when encouraged by government has always been dangerous to the liberties of the people.

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

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

Those who deny the existence of a supreme being have been turned into second-class citizens by a government that continuously sends messages that 'real Americans' believe in God.

The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

In bringing the subject of religious oppression to a wider audience, I didn't just want to kick the Catholic Church but to poke a finger in the throat of theocracy and to let it be known that people shouldn't tolerate this anymore.

Much mischief and grief will come from any alliances, holy or otherwise, between organized religious groups and the state.

The evils which sapped the nation’s strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

The mixing of government and religion can be a threat to free government, even if no one is forced to participate.... When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion, it conveys a message of exclusion to all those who do not adhere to the favored beliefs.