Paul Harris Quotes

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

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

I cannot reconcile monitoring certain people for no reason other than their religion with the freedom of religion we have here in America.

To increase aid to the Pakistan government when religious freedom is not upheld is tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy.

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 don’t see a bit of danger from us having an established religion.

Enforced uniformity confounds civil and religious liberty and denies the principles of Christianity and civility. No man shall be required to worship or maintain a worship against his will.

Religious liberty was never intended to give one religion dominion over other religions, or a veto power over the civil rights and civil liberties of others. However, today, as in the past, religion is being used as both a weapon and a shield by those seeking to deny others equality. In our nation’s past religion has been used to justify slavery and later, Jim Crow laws. We now see “religious liberty” arguments sneaking their way back into our political and constitutional discourse (just like the concept of “state rights”) in an effort to undermine the rights of some Americans.

I cut my teeth on religious liberty issues.

Our religious freedoms are under constant attack from a variety of groups who seek to undermine our constitutional rights and threaten our founding principles.

In my opinion, you start messing with what this country was founded on, and our baseline is what we call it, it opens up too many - too many doors. You start messing with that, people can say religion kills people. So, let's start messing with that.

I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.

Regrettably, the Obama administration has chosen to take a lackadaisical approach to religious freedom, and allowed IRFA to fade into the background.

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

The idea we would create some kind of religious test for entry into the country is absolutely wrong.

Religious freedom is a fundamental human right.

There is not a truth to be gathered from history more certain, or more momentous, than this: that civil liberty cannot long be separated from religious liberty without danger, and ultimately without destruction to both. Wherever religious liberty exists, it will, first or last, bring in and establish political liberty.

To speak against religion (the Christian) is breaking down the bond of good government.

Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.

We have taken God out of our education system. We have taken Him out of government. You have lawyers that sue you every time you mention the name of Jesus Christ in any public forum.

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

President Obama understands that, as a nation founded by those who fled religious persecution, freedom of religion is central to who we are as Americans. Our rights are not given to us by government, they are endowed by our Creator.

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

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.