Donald Trump Quotes

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.

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

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

I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America.

I'm just confused as to where we lost that in America because it is everyone's God-given right to think the way they think and that's fine. That's why our ancestors came here to America, to believe what they want, pray how they want and follow a religion with whoever they want.

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.

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.

The phrase 'religious liberty' has become an overused talisman. Most of the invocations lately have nothing to do with actual infringements of free exercise [of religion]. They're about political and cultural dissent from gay rights.

The reason religion has thrived in America is because we have a free market in religion. I am opposed to theocracy.

Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disassociate without penalty.

We stand for a free church in a free state. Neither one should control the affairs of the other. We support the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, with its "establishment" and "free exercise" clauses.

The First Amendment mandates government neutrality between religion and religion, and between religion and non-religion.

Government has no more right to help us Christians flaunt our beliefs than it has to suppress any faith.

The First Amendment does not select any one group or any one type of religion for preferred treatment.

Alabama has a history of safeguarding our freedom of religion.

The Constitution has never treated religion as merely another private opinion that government can order people to keep to themselves.

We are a people of faith. We have been so secure in that faith that we have enshrined in our Constitution protection for people who profess no faith. And good for us for doing so. That is what the First Amendment is all about.

The Constitution does not guarantee freedom of worship - it guarantees freedom of religion. And this is what I call America's first freedom...

If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith.

You're entitled in this country to worship as you please or to not worship. It's one of the great things that defines us as a nation, and it's at the heart of what it is to be in America.

Religious liberty, hey, it's about religious liberty. And there has to be a melding of both. We're living in a time where you have to have a melding of both. But it's very unfair what they're doing to religion in this country.

Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?

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