Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"All religions united with government
are more or less inimical to liberty.
All, separated from government,
are compatible with liberty."

~ Henry Clay  

"Freedom of religion means the right of the individual to choose
and to adhere to whichever religious beliefs he may prefer,
to join with others in religious associations to express these beliefs,
and to incur no civil disabilities because of his choice..."

~ Joseph L. Blau  

"It is in our lives and not our words
that our religion must be read."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression
and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or time."

~ Margaret Atwood  

"During almost fifteen centuries the legal establishment of
Christianity has been upon trial. What has been its fruits?
More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy;
ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition,
bigotry, and persecution."

~ James Madison  

"They that approve a private opinion, call it an opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion."

~ Thomas Hobbes  

"Religious liberty is primarily a man’s liberty
to profess a faith different from that of the dominant religion,
and to unite in public worship with those who share his faith."

~ Giovanni Miegge  

"Religious liberty is the chief cornerstone of the American system of government, and provisions for its security are embedded in the written charter and interwoven in the moral fabric of its laws. Anything that tends to invade a right so essential and sacred must be carefully guarded against, and I am satisfied that my countrymen, ever mindful of the suffering and sacrifices necessary to obtain it, will never consent to its impairment for any reason or under any pretext whatsoever."

~ Thomas F. Bayard  

"The cause of freedom is the cause of God."

~ William Lisle Bowles  

~ Calvin Coolidge  

"So when any of the four pillars of government, are mainly shaken, or weakened (which are religion, justice, counsel, and treasure), men had need to pray for fair weather."

~ Francis Bacon  

"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity."

~ Irving Kristol  

~ Abraham Lincoln  

~ Charles de Montesquieu  

That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.

~ Quintus Ennius