Quotes About Freedom

The stallion and his mare, unbridled, with arrow-pattern, are worked on. the blue cloth before the door of religion and inspiration.

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

Parents have no right to impose their religion on their children... A Fundamentalist Protestant parent has no right to expect the state to support his own narrow conception of education.

Religion in the public square is becoming an endangered species.

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

Real democracy means that no group or faction or leader can impose their will, their ideology, their religion, their desires on anyone else.

The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate.

Too often, we see people who are prevented from practicing their religion because of a government mandate.

In France, religion had been considered the enemy of liberty, but in America, as George Washington expressed it, religion and morality were the 'twin pillars of freedom.'

Human rights are universally valid and indivisible, regardless of culture and religion.

God is something that needs rescuing from religion.

I'd rather be a born-once hog than a born-again Christian any day.

Without God there would be no freedom to believe what you want.

They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom's cause.

Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.

Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

I'm concerned about organized religion getting away with what it gets away with.

God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state.

Only my death will determine whether I am 'Mohamed Gandhi', Jinnah's slave, destroyer of the Hindu religion or its servant and protector.

We believe in separation of church and state, that there should be no unwarranted influence on the church or religion by the state, and vice versa.

Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot and ought not to be forced.

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