Joe Lieberman Quotes

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

We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate. All are free to practice faith or not, and those who believe are free and should be free, to speak of and act on their belief.

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

There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period.

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

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.

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

Congress shall not make any law infringing the rights of conscience, or establishing any religious sect or society Congress shall make no law establishing one religious sect or society in preference to others. Congress shall make no law establishing any particular denomination of religion in preference to another

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than on opinions in physics or geometry.

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

If a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others, then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion.

We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate.

No union exists between church and state, and perfect freedom of opinion is guaranteed to all sects and creeds.

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?

I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, not even in Sweden.

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

I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

The point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment.

Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.

From a constitutional standpoint, the religion of a candidate is supposed to make no difference. Even before the founding fathers dreamed up the First Amendment, they inserted a provision in the Constitution expressly prohibiting any religious test for office.

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.

Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.

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