William F. Buckley Jr. Quotes

The ACLU has been able to harass out of existence public expressions of faith.

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

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

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

I’m a Christian Citizen exercising my Constitutional Rights

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.

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

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 shift from the Judeo-Christian basis for law and the shift away from the restraints of the Constitution automatically militates against religious liberty.

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.

The issue of religious liberty is absolutely critical. America was founded on three different types of liberty: political liberty, economic liberty, and religious and civil liberty. It's remarkable that, one-by-one, these strands of liberty are coming under fierce attack from the Left. And that's particularly ironic because "liberal" derives from a word which means "liberty," the free man as opposed to the slave. This liberalism which we're saddled with today isn't a real liberalism at all, but a gangster style of politics masquerading as liberalism.

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.

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

The ACLU spent this entire holiday season protesting public displays of the nativity scene. Yeah, that's the problem with America right now: Public displays of Christ's birth, that's the problem. It's unbelievable to me. The ACLU will no longer fight for your right to put up a nativity scene, but they'll fight for the right of the local freak who wants to stumble onto the scene and have sex with one of the sheep.

A man should have a right to be religious if he wants to. The government should not be involved in those decisions.

They took your commandments off the schoolhouse walls, they say it's a crime to pray.

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

Banning prayer in school in effect made God unconstitutional.

We don't need a constitutional amendment for kids to pray.

What good is religious liberty if it can only be practiced behind stained-glass windows on Sunday?

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.