Joseph Story Quotes

Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion.

Religious freedom is a fundamental human right.

America is a country founded on religious freedom and liberty.

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

There is little doubt that religious liberty is best exercised within the setting of the secular state.

Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own. It does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor state prestige. The more it obtains state support, the greater it curtails human freedom.

When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.

What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights.

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

A robust democratic society depends on its ability to uphold and protect religious freedom -- a basic right inherent in the very dignity of the human person. It is therefore essential to safeguard citizens who belong to religious minorities from acts of violence. Such protection not only accords with human dignity but also contributes to the common good.

Religious and civil liberty are best protected by unbounded freedom of thought.

Religious freedom in the American sense, incorporating the separation of church and state, has been the pivotal concept of the national development of the United States of America.

I'm a religious liberty supporter - I strongly believe in that.

I think most people have no idea about what religious freedom means.

Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.

Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom.

Religious freedom is often referred to as America's first freedom. Our country was founded by religious exiles and built on the belief that God has given all people certain inalienable rights. Government's role in society is to protect these rights and ensure that we are safe from religious persecution and discrimination.

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

It is important that social, political, and religious freedoms grow in China. A society which recognizes religious freedom is a society which will recognize political freedom as well.

Religious liberty is about freedom of action in matters of religion generally, and the scope of that liberty is directly correlated to the civil restraints placed upon religious practice.

..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.

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.

America didn't create religious liberty. Religious liberty created America.

An enforced uniformity of religion throughout a nation or civil state, confounds the civil and religious, denies the principles of Christianity and civility, and that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh.