Mike Huckabee Quotes

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.

Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.

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

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

As a preacher who has spent significant time in churches and houses of worship all across the country, I can tell you firsthand that religious liberty and freedom are principles that can never be infringed upon.

You can't ignore the reality that faith and family, those two things are integral parts of having limited government, lower taxes, and free societies.

I strongly oppose the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. We must stand for the right of every American to practice their faith according to the dictates of their conscience, whether it be in the public square or in the workplace.

I certainly do not support excluding faith from public life.

Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

The profound influence of religion on American politics is vital, but it is best when indirect: on the morals, habits, and souls of individual Americans; on the political climate and the principals that should guide policy, rather than on specific policies themselves…

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual’s private rights.

Many of the problems of our country started when we chased faith out of the public square.

Religion must be disciplined by democracy.

Our government makes no sense, unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith—and I don't care what it is.

The Constitution forbids states from banning all religion from public spaces and from making churches the ghettos of religion where all manifestations of faith are kept separate from public life. Religious people have an equal right to participate in the public square and to have their contributions to Oklahoma history and society recognized.

I derive a lot of the values that I try to bring into the public sphere from my private faith.

Freedom of religion does not entitle your religion to have a privileged position within the public sphere.

Freedom & Duty always go hand in hand and if the free do not accept the duty of social responsibility, they will not long remain free.

[A] society which makes freedom its primary goal will lose it, because it has made, not responsibility, but freedom from responsibility, its purpose. When freedom is the basic emphasis, it is not responsible speech which is fostered but irresponsible speech.

Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.

But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.

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

I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.

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