John Edwards Quotes

I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism.

I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed

… tolerance is essential to protect one's own religion and one's own deeply held religious beliefs from external manipulation or efforts to overcome them, perhaps from other religions that are pushing in the opposite direction. That is the basic reason for religious tolerance.

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.

I don't have a problem with other people having different faith; my problem is if we confuse respecting that with surrendering our own faith.

In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.

In America you have the right to worship any way you choose. That's why virtually every faith and every denomination on Earth has a presence in our land. You have a right to not believe in God at all.

Let's let everybody believe what they want to believe. And that means, P.C. police, don't you be coming down on people who believe in God and who believe in Jesus.

I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.

Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.

The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.

The fact that I don't have any particular need for religion doesn't mean that I have a need to cast religion aside the way some of my colleagues do.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith.

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

I am a person of faith who believes deeply in the right to exercise religious beliefs.

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate. This right is in its nature an unalienable right.

We early freed ourselves from the incubus of a State Church.

One religious denomination cannot be officially preferred over another.

The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.

In this country there is no alliance between church and state, no established religion, no tolerated religion—for toleration results from establishment

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.