Vladimir Zhirinovsky Quotes

I think we recognize as Americans there are certain things that are just primary to the freedoms and liberties that we enjoy here and religious freedom is one of the most important things we as Americans cherish.

The reason religion has thrived in America is because we have a free market in religion. I am opposed to theocracy.

Americans did not come here to escape religion. The came here to escape established religion.

Nothing is more important to me, and nothing was more important to our founding fathers, than freedom of religion.

In Arkansas, we believe in religious freedom.

We Americans can be rightly proud of the fact that the right to the free and unfettered exercise of religion is a primary principle in the vision and founding of our country. It defines us as a people, and has uniquely contributed to making this nation great.

Religious freedom is already protected in the United States. It's in our Constitution. It's in most state constitutions.

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

Growing up in Britain as a rather loose Jew, the two things that didn't belong together were freedom and religious intensity. In America, they do. The Founding Fathers made a bet that if you didn't force everyone to profess religion in their own particular way, you could protect intellectual freedom, and religion would flourish.

Whether the Sikhs want to worship in Wisconsin or the Christians want to worship in Texas or the Jews want to worship in New York, we're living under the magnificent umbrella of a Constitution that says we can.

There is little doubt that religious liberty is best exercised within the setting of the secular state.

Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disassociate without penalty.

Religious beliefs pervade, and religious institutions have traditionally regulated virtually all human activity. It is a postulate of American life ... that those beliefs ... shall continue ... to exist, to function ... free of the dictates and directions of the state.

Japanese subjects shall, within limits not prejudicial to peace and order, and not antagonistic to their duties as subjects, enjoy freedom of religious belief. [Article 28, 1889 Constitution] Freedom of religion is guaranteed to all. No religious organization shall receive any privileges from the State, nor exercise any political authority. 2) No person shall be compelled to take part in any religious acts, celebration, rite or practice. 3) The State and its organs shall refrain from religious education or any other religious activity. [Article 20, 1946 Constitution]

I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about the legal ascendency of one sect over another.

There is full and free Liberty of Conscience granted to all, so that no man is to be molested or called in question for matters of Religious Concern; but every one to be obedient to the Civil Government, worshipping God after their own way.

Religious freedom in the American sense, incorporating the separation of church and state, has been the pivotal concept of the national development of the United States of America.

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.

It is far better for a country to remain under the rule of Islam than be governed by Christians who refuse to acknowledge the rights of the Catholic Church.

It accords with the good order of the realm and the peacefulness of our times that each should have freedom to worship God after his own choice.

Americans deserve to have their religious beliefs and practices protected. Religious freedom is too important to be trampled by insensitive bureaucracy or bad policy.

Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.

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

You are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan.

The President's extraordinary commitment to religious liberty has been obvious since the very beginning of his presidency - just two weeks after his inauguration, Donald Trump attended the National Prayer Breakfast where he stressed the importance of preserving and cherishing religious values.