Scott Pruitt Quotes

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

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.

I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions.

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.

The tendency of the spirit of the age is strong toward religious liberty.

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

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

The First Amendment mandates government neutrality between religion and religion, and between religion and non-religion.

The First Amendment does not select any one group or any one type of religion for preferred treatment.

Freedom of religion is a fundamental Constitutional principle. It's a founding principle of this country.

People must have the right to freely practice their religion. It is written in our founding documents and at the core of our values. If you look at my record, you'll see I safeguarded those values.

We are a nation built on principles of freedom, and high on the list of freedoms is freedom of religious expression.

Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect.

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?

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

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

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.

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

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

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 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.

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Really, at a time when they're debating when and where a nativity scene can be used, this is the kind of stuff we need to have out there - outside of the church.

By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.

No religious consensus is possible in the United States, and to impose one would be both unconstitutional and unjust.