Scott Pruitt Quotes

In my opinion, you start messing with what this country was founded on, and our baseline is what we call it, it opens up too many - too many doors. You start messing with that, people can say religion kills people. So, let's start messing with that.

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

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

Religious freedom, often referred to as the first freedom, is of central import to the American experiment. As such it should feature prominently in U.S. foreign policy.

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

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.

I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.

Regrettably, the Obama administration has chosen to take a lackadaisical approach to religious freedom, and allowed IRFA to fade into the background.

Religious freedom is often referred to as America's first freedom. Our country was founded by religious exiles and built on the belief that God has given all people certain inalienable rights. Government's role in society is to protect these rights and ensure that we are safe from religious persecution and discrimination.

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?

To speak against religion (the Christian) is breaking down the bond of good government.

I tell fundamentalists that there is no question of them attacking our Republic's foundations.

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.

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.

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

President Obama understands that, as a nation founded by those who fled religious persecution, freedom of religion is central to who we are as Americans. Our rights are not given to us by government, they are endowed by our Creator.

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

The religion that has to be supported by law is without value, not only, but a fraud and a curse. The religious argument that has to be supported by a musket is hardly worth making.

Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.

When the government says to you that they want to help you be more religious, you want to run away from them as fast as possible.

Zealous groups threaten to infringe civil liberties when they seek government support to impose their own religious views on non-adherents. This has taken many forms, including attempts to introduce organized prayer in public schools, to outlaw birth control and abortion, and to use public tax revenues to finance religious schools.

The Catholics had the right secured to them by the Constitution of worshipping the God of their fathers in the manner dictated by their consciences.... This country is not prepared to establish an inquisition to try and punish men for their religious beliefs.

It is not possible in the nature of things to establish religion by human laws without perverting the design of civil law and oppressing the people.

Congress should not establish a religion and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any manner contrary to their conscience, or that one sect might obtain a pre-eminence, or two combined together, and establish a religion to which they would compel others to conform

Government has no more right to help us Christians flaunt our beliefs than it has to suppress any faith.