James Madison Quotes

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

I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America.

It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.

The Constitution provides that all Americans enjoy the right to live a life in accordance with their convictions of faith.

The right to religious freedom and the right to vote are both fundamental to our democracy.

I believe in democracy. I also believe in religious freedom.

The ACLU has been able to harass out of existence public expressions of faith.

The First Amendment means everything to me.

A decision by Germany's highest court that banned the display of crosses or crucifixes in classrooms has sparked widespread outrage and protest.

Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance.

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.

As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.

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.

I disagree strongly with the concept of separation of church and state. It was not written into the Constitution.

Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents.

It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty.

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

Religious institutions should have religious freedom on this issue. No church or minister should ever have to conduct a marriage that is inconsistent with their religious beliefs. But I think as a civil institution, this issue's time has come and we need to move forward.

We must erase bin Laden's ugly legacy, not extend it: by ending the Patriot Act's erosion of our civil liberties, we can protect the freedoms that make America worth fighting for.

Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.

I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute. The idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country.

The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.

ACLU: Anti Christian Lawyers Association

We cannot accept that democratic freedoms need to be abrogated to protect Islam.