Chris Cuomo Quotes

In a free government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects.

America is a country founded on religious freedom and liberty.

I believe in the separation of church and state... We all have our own religious beliefs. There are people out there who are atheists, who don't believe at all... They are all citizens of Minnesota and I have to respect that.

You've got to protect the system of secular faith in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and Enlightenment values. That way, you can protect all religions.

I believe in democracy. I also believe in religious freedom.

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.

It is contended by many that ours is a Christian government, founded upon the Bible, and that all who look upon the book as false or foolish are destroying the foundation of our country. The truth is, our government is not founded upon the rights of gods, but upon the rights of men. Our Constitution was framed, not to declare and uphold the deity of Christ, but the sacredness of humanity. Ours is the first government made by the people and for the people. It is the only nation with which the gods have had nothing to do.

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.

We want a separation of church and state, but we also want the human and civil rights of all people. Religion is a human right.

Religion is for God, and the country is for everyone.

There's no religious test in our country, and there shouldn't be. We're an open, competitive society.

The right to religious freedom and the right to vote are both fundamental to our democracy.

We are a people of faith. We have been so secure in that faith that we have enshrined in our Constitution protection for people who profess no faith. And good for us for doing so. That is what the First Amendment is all about.

It's time to resist efforts of the American Civil Liberties Union who have conducted a religious lobotomy on this country, seeking to strip it of any vestige of religious influence.

If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.

We have the most religious freedom of any country in the world, including the freedom not to believe.

To the ACLU, the First Amendment speaks more directly to freedom from religion than it does to freedom of religion.

In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights.

First and foremost is what this country was based on: one nation under God.

We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.

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

We Americans unite faith and freedom in asserting that our liberties are your gift, God, not that of government.

As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.

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.