Russell Kirk Quotes

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

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

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.

The ACLU sues no matter what public property a religious symbol is placed on.

The real threat, as seen by the ACLU, is that religious behavior might give secular behavior a bad name, and that is, surely, unconstitutional.

On the issues of religious liberty, the Supreme Court continues to scrape against the bedrock of the American spirit.

The anger I felt when the ACLU tried to disenfranchise me because my religious stayed with me. These are dangerous people who make dangerous arguments. Some powerful members of the cultural elites in our country are so paralyzed by the fear that theistic notions might reassert themselves in the official activities of government that they will go to Gestapo lengths to inhibit such expression.

We see our liberties curtailed more and more and more.We see a tremendous attack on religious freedom.

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.

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

I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America.

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.

Enforced uniformity confounds civil and religious liberty and denies the principles of Christianity and civility. No man shall be required to worship or maintain a worship against his will.

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.

Stephen L. Carter coined the phrase 'the culture of disbelief' to describe the prevailing hostility in Western culture toward public expressions of faith.

Of the five rights listed in the First Amendment. - religion, speech, press, assembly, petition - the very first right protected is freely exercising our religion.

Nowhere have the forces of intolerance been displayed less tolerantly than in the area of religious speech and practice.

Religious freedom is a fundamental human right.

If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith.

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

There is no relationship here between Church and State. Religious liberty has its unalterable place, along with civil and human liberty, in the very foundation of the Republic. I hold it [religious intolerance] to be a menace to the very liberties which we boast and cherish.

Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.

Each new lawsuit seeks to expand the size of the 'religion-free zone' in the public square.

Our culture's tolerance wears thin when religion intrudes on the public discourse... Our schools, courtrooms, and libraries set the tone for the entire society. The message they currently communicate is harsh and unambiguous: religion is offensive and should be kept out of public view.

The ACLU is to Christians what the American Nazi party is to Jews.