Quotes About Liberty

Liberty of conscience is for those who truly fear the Lord. A fundamental task of the state is the establishment of pure religion.

Not the Christian religion only, but nature herself, cries out against the state of slavery.

Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.

The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.

The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.

Almost all the civil liberty now enjoyed in the world owes its origin to the principles of the christian religion.

Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.

The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.

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.'

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.

Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it is wrong.

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

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

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

With America's role in the world, we have the ability to help protect the freedom of religion around the globe.

[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty.

Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom.

Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right.

If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.

Freedom has its roots in religion.

Freedom is an expensive gift always worth fighting for. Even if it costs us!

When there is liberty, you expect a higher degree of freedom and not human rights abuse.

Life, liberty and the pursuit of gratitude, now that would've worked. They would have been readily led to contentment, which would've then better lead them on to happiness.