Walter Savage Landor Quotes

Men are free and claim the right to think for themselves in religious as well as political matters.

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

The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.

We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.

Freedom of speech isn't something somebody else gives you. That's something you give to yourself.

Why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?

Isn't this country wonderful because you get the right to believe what you want to? But where we all get into trouble is when some people feel they have the right to inflict their beliefs on others.

Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is of right, absolute.

My freedom is more important than your good idea.

Religious and civil liberty are best protected by unbounded freedom of thought.

I'm a religious liberty supporter - I strongly believe in that.

The state ought not to intervene to prevent individuals from doing things that not only are no risk to others but are of no risk to themselves either.

I'm a big believer in freedom and people's rights to express themselves and not have government interfere in that type of thing.

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.

[Religious liberty was] in its nature an inalienable right ... because the opinions of men, depending only upon the evidence contemplated by their minds, cannot follow the dictates of other men.

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 should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.

I consider myself a kind of a one-man government-in-exile. I don't want to call it a government - let's call it one man's idea of American freedom in exile.

We cannot afford to walk down that dangerous path of government overstepping its boundaries into the most personal parts of our lives.

I think that everybody has a right to their own thoughts, their own feelings and their own private moments, if they want them.