Trent Franks Quotes

I'm very keen on having true freedom of expression. True freedom of faith. And free practice of religious faith.

There is no compulsion in religion.

Protection of religious freedom means considering the faiths and beliefs of everyone involved.

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

In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.

Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door, and what we do with our lives after we do, is up to us.

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.

'Freedom of belief and worship is the most important guarantee of social peace.

If anyone desires a religion other than Islam, never will it be accepted of him

From the dissensions among Sects themselves arise necessarily a right of choosing and necessity of deliberating to which we will conform. But if we choose for ourselves, we must allow others to choose also, and so reciprocally, this establishes religious liberty.

every human being is free to embrace and profess that religion which, led by the light of reason he/she believes to be true…. in our time it is no longer convenient to have the Catholic religion as the only religion to the exclusion of any other religion.

That it is much in their [the Rhode Island colonists'] hearts (if they may be permitted) to hold forth a lively experiment that a most flourishing civil state may stand and be best maintained, and that among our British subjects, with full liberty of religious concernments.

What does religious freedom look like? As America gets more religiously diverse, the concept is getting harder to define …. You can get 10 different groups in the room and they will disagree about what religious liberty is.

In Arkansas, we believe in religious freedom.

I am perfectly clear in my mind and in my conscience in respect of freedom of religious principles and beliefs.

At the political level, most Jews and most Catholics have accepted the liberal idea of religious freedom.

The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority.

I believe in full freedom for Christians of all denominations.

There is no difference between Muslim life, Christian life or Jewish life.

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.

The new United States took the lead among the nations of the earth in the establishment of religious freedom. That is one reason America has never had any religious wars or any religious persecutions.

By the religious peace, Catholic proprietors of estates were no further bound to their Protestant subjects than to allow them full liberty to quit their territories.

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

Freedom arises from a multiplicity of sects, which pervades America, and which is the best and only security for religious liberty.