Rosie O'Donnell Quotes

In this new democratic stage of Tunisian history, the question is no longer one of secularism verses religion: the state no longer imposes secularism through repression...

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

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.

This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into the public schools. Our churches are very strong in this nation and I think that's great and everybody should have the ability to worship as he or she sees fit. I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.

I believe in the separation of church and state. The government has the right to say what happens in a civil case, like in a court house. And religious people have a right to say what happens in a church congregation. They are two completely separate things.

Our rights do not come from God. That's your faith, that's my faith, but that's not our country.

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.

I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.

I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution, and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.

A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political process.

Religion and the public liberty of a people are interwoven, and cannot exist separately.

Religious freedom must include the right to influence public policy within the bounds of liberal norms.

The great leaders of the American Revolution were determined to remove political support from every religious establishment.

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.

I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.

The Declaration of Rights in March of 1795 was intended to embrace all men, not just Christians.

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.

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

The founding fathers of the U.S. were right when they erected that wall between church and state.

I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.

If a man wishes to have God recognized in the constitution of our country, let him read the history of the Inquisition, and let him remember that hundreds of millions of men, women, and children have been sacrificed to placate the wrath, or win the approbation of this god.

Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course.

I believe the American people are more concerned with a man's views and abilities than with the church to which he belongs. I believe the founding fathers meant it when they provided in Article VI of the Constitution that there should be no religious test for public office. And I believe that the American people mean to adhere to those principles today.

The decision for complete religious freedom and for separation of church and state in the eyes of the rest of the world was perhaps the most important decision reached in the New World. Everywhere in the western world of the 18th century, church and state were one; and everywhere the state maintained an established church and tried to force conformity to its dogma.

I don't have an issue with what you do in the church, but I'm going to be up in your face if you're going to knock on my science classroom and tell me they've got to teach what you're teaching in your Sunday school. Because that's when we're going to fight.