Quotes · Skopia

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Topic·Freedom of religion✕clear

Essay · Academic journal

The secular State is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.

Christopher Hitchens

1998

★ 1.9

Historical literature

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

99

★ 3.7

Pamphlet · Political literature

As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of all government, to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no other business which government hath to do therewith.

Common Sense · 1776

★ 3.7

Religious literature

It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.

Ad Scapulam · 217

★ 3.8

Political literature

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

Thomas Jefferson

Notes on the State of Virginia · 1785

★ 3.8

Political literature

Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effet of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.

Thomas Jefferson

Notes on the State of Virginia · 1785

★ 3.8

Scripture · Religious literature

No compulsion is there in religion.

The Quran, The Koran, 2:256 · 632

★ 3.9

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion—except for the sect that can win political power.

Robert H. Jackson

Zorach v. Clauson · 1952

★ 4.4

Political literature

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

Thomas Jefferson

Notes on the State of Virginia · 1787

★ 5.5

Political literature

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Bill of Rights · 1789

★ 7.2