Josh Hawley Quotes

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

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

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

The Congress should at once submit an amendment to the Constitution which enables the right to religious devotion in all governmental agencies—national, state or local.

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 point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment.

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

I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith.

The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.

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.

Today, the religion clauses of the 1st Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed.

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

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

Nothing is more important to me, and nothing was more important to our founding fathers, than freedom of religion.

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?

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

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

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

Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo.

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

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

Religious freedom is already protected in the United States. It's in our Constitution. It's in most state constitutions.

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

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.