Alexander Acosta Quotes

I think we recognize as Americans there are certain things that are just primary to the freedoms and liberties that we enjoy here and religious freedom is one of the most important things we as Americans cherish.

I'm very keen on having true freedom of expression. True freedom of faith. And free practice of religious faith.

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

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

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

We Americans can be rightly proud of the fact that the right to the free and unfettered exercise of religion is a primary principle in the vision and founding of our country. It defines us as a people, and has uniquely contributed to making this nation great.

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

Religious freedom, often referred to as the first freedom, is of central import to the American experiment. As such it should feature prominently in U.S. foreign policy.

I have ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect.

That it is much in their [the Rhode Island colonists'] hearts (if they may be permitted) to hold forth a lively experiment that a most flourishing civil state may stand and be best maintained, and that among our British subjects, with full liberty of religious concernments.

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

In Arkansas, we believe in religious freedom.

People must have the right to freely practice their religion. It is written in our founding documents and at the core of our values. If you look at my record, you'll see I safeguarded those values.

What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.

Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.

Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door, and what we do with our lives after we do, is up to us.

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

Whether the Sikhs want to worship in Wisconsin or the Christians want to worship in Texas or the Jews want to worship in New York, we're living under the magnificent umbrella of a Constitution that says we can.

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.

We cannot change the profound and resistless tendencies of the age toward religious liberty. It is our business to guide and control their applications.

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.

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.

Americans deserve to have their religious beliefs and practices protected. Religious freedom is too important to be trampled by insensitive bureaucracy or bad policy.