Quotes About Freedom

For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit.

In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.

Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.

Religion is a very dangerous thing. By that I mean being so caught up in rules and regulations and not focusing on the thing that matters most- a personal relationship with God.

I have not seen any Christian sparrow or Muslim lion or Jewish elephant! Animals are lucky as they have not yet invented the religion!

When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.

It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.

In our country we ask no toleration for religion and its free exercise, but we claim it as an inalienable right.

Religion is a self-conferred intellectual decision; it's not something you get at birth and is unchangeable. You're collusive with the religion when you accept it; you have a choice.

Every religion has its dignity ... in freedom of expression there are limits.

A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.

I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery.

I'm not going to have a tombstone. I'm going to be tossed in the air. Ashes, tossed like a salad.

Freedom of religion does not give you the right to physically or verbally assault people.

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.

Today, the religion clauses of the First Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed.

When you legislate personal belief, you're in violation of freedom of religion.

Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines everything, which is the essence of tyranny.

I believe in, and will to the best of my ability fight for, equal rights and freedom of opinion for everyone, regardless of colour, religion, nationality, orientation - you know the rest.

Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.

[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.

What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity.

We have this one life, let's enjoy it, let's live it to the full and don't get so worked up about don't identify yourself so passionately with this business called religion.