Quotes About Freedom

We are a people of many different religions and many different faiths. The only way forward in a pluralistic society of diverse faiths such as ours is to have laws that protect and respect the freedom of all, equally.

You've got to protect the system of secular faith in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and Enlightenment values. That way, you can protect all religions.

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor.

Peace, for us, is an asset and in our interest. It is an absolute human asset that allows an individual to freely develop his individuality unbound by any regional, religious, or ethnic fetters.

I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.

We are a nation built on principles of freedom, and high on the list of freedoms is freedom of religious expression.

In climbing there is no question of right or wrong. Moral right or wrong, that is a religious question, they have nothing to do with anarchical activity, and classical mountaineering is a completely anarchical activity.

This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief.

I am a person of faith who believes deeply in the right to exercise religious beliefs.

Americans are squeamish about anything that seems to punish people for their religious beliefs.

America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs as they please. Our culture has always been, and will most likely always be, profoundly influenced by religion.

Everyone has the right to practice their religious beliefs in private but expect that people might publicly reject said beliefs.

While all religious beliefs should be respected, choice is a human right.

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

In Arkansas, we believe in religious freedom.

And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership.

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.

The right to religious freedom and the right to vote are both fundamental to our democracy.

I believe in democracy. I also believe in religious freedom.

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

Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the state is in grave danger.

At the political level, most Jews and most Catholics have accepted the liberal idea of religious freedom.