Richard Mentor Johnson Quotes

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.

Any attempt to single out Islam would be a violation of the Constitution.

From a constitutional standpoint, the religion of a candidate is supposed to make no difference. Even before the founding fathers dreamed up the First Amendment, they inserted a provision in the Constitution expressly prohibiting any religious test for office.

The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period.

I don’t see a bit of danger from us having an established religion.

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

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

The 1st Amendment was established to ensure, in addition to free exercise, that the state did not have the power to establish any particular religious teaching.

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than on opinions in physics or geometry.

This wicked system is based on freedom of religion and belief and freedom of speech and separation of religion and politics. Democracy is heresy itself.

Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?

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

The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation of church and state so that the laws we live by our never guided by religious zeal.

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

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.

Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.

We have taken God out of our education system. We have taken Him out of government. You have lawyers that sue you every time you mention the name of Jesus Christ in any public forum.

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

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

Though there are laws against blasphemy and insult to religion in many European countries, France has institutionalised its anti-clerical past by proscribing religion from public life.

The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.

Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.

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

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