Saint John Paul the Great Quote on Purpose of Freedom
Category: Freedom
St. Pope John XXIII Quote
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
-St. Pope John XXIII Quote
George Washington Quote on Morality and Religion
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
-George Washington, Farewell Address, 9/19/1796
Barbara Ward Quote from “Faith and Freedom”
Faith will not be restored in the West because people believe it to be useful. It will return only when they find that it is true.
-Barbara Ward, Faith and Freedom, 1954
Abraham Lincoln Quote Dependence on God
It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God: to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon.
-Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation, March 30, 1863
Why I support The Free Speech Fairness Act – Reason #7
The safety and prosperity of nations ultimately and essentially depend on the protection and the blessing of Almighty God.
-John Adams, Proclamation for a day of prayer, 1797
The Free Speech Fairness Act is needed to protect the constitutional freedoms of pastors and churches. They should have the same protection as the rest of us.
Why I support The Free Speech Fairness Act – Reason #6
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others, and in public or in private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 18, 1948
Why I support The Free Speech Fairness Act – Reason #5
Rulers ought to employ a page to repeat to them every morning: “See that you do not torment anyone on account of his religious opinions, and that you do not extend the power of the sword to touch the conscience.”
-Joseph Glanville, The Vanity of Dogmatizing, 1661
Why I support The Free Speech Fairness Act – Reason #4
If liberty is to be saved, it will not be by the doubters, the men of science, or the materialists; it will be by religious conviction, by the faith of individuals, who believe that God wills man to be free but also pure.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection, 1825
Why I support The Free Speech Fairness Act – Reason #3
