Barack Obama Quotes

America's commitment to religious freedom and tolerance should not be conditional.

Freedom arises from a multiplicity of sects, which pervades America, and which is the best and only security for religious liberty.

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

If you're a Christian, Jew or Muslim, you're equally an American. That's the great thing about America, is the right to worship the way you see fit.

Growing up in Britain as a rather loose Jew, the two things that didn't belong together were freedom and religious intensity. In America, they do. The Founding Fathers made a bet that if you didn't force everyone to profess religion in their own particular way, you could protect intellectual freedom, and religion would flourish.

The tendency of the spirit of the age is strong toward religious liberty.

The new United States took the lead among the nations of the earth in the establishment of religious freedom. That is one reason America has never had any religious wars or any religious persecutions.

Permit liberty of conscience in matters of religion to all persons.

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

The freedom of all faiths, and non faiths, is best protected when government does not give its blessings to any.

What does religious freedom look like? As America gets more religiously diverse, the concept is getting harder to define …. You can get 10 different groups in the room and they will disagree about what religious liberty is.

With us, the State is undoubtedly on solid ground in refusing to decide what type of religion is best for society. Society is left free to work out the problem. And here is a curious and pertinent matter for remark: that the Stale is the only department of civilization which, by common consent, is denied this privilege.

The freedom of religion and of religious conscience is at the core of democratic development.

… all other [than Christianity] religions, with the public exercise of the same, be both tolerated and protected by the council of religion: and that all professors of any such religion be equally capability of all elections, magistracies, preferments and offices in the commonwealth.

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

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

America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity - the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

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

In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.

Religious liberty should mean religious liberty for everyone, employees as well.

We can be deeply thankful that we live in a land where reason and religion are friends and allies in the cause of liberty, joined against the evils and dangers of the day. And you can be certain of this: Any believer in religious freedom, any person who has knelt in prayer to the Almighty, has a friend and ally in me. And so it is for hundreds of millions of our countrymen: we do not insist on a single strain of religion - rather, we welcome our nation's symphony of faith.

The great tradition of America is one where people can worship the way they want to worship. And if they choose not to worship, they're just as patriotic as your neighbor. That is an essential part of why we are a great nation. If you're a Jew or a Christian or a Muslim, you're equally American.

We have the most religious freedom of any country in the world, including the freedom not to believe.

One of the great things about America is that we have the freedom to worship or not worship as we please. It doesn't matter whether you're a Christian, Jew, Muslim. It doesn't matter whether you're an evangelical or a Catholic or a moderate Jew. You're entitled to worship - or an agnostic or atheist.

Religious liberty must be protected in this country. It's a principle upon which we were founded.