Religious Liberty

Famous quotes containing the words religious liberty, religious and/or liberty:

    “[Religious liberty was] in its nature an inalienable right ... because the opinions of men, depending only upon the evidence contemplated by their minds, cannot follow the dictates of other men.”
    —James Madison (1751–1836)

    “If the religious spirit be ever mentioned in any historical narration, we are sure to meet afterwards with a detail of the miseries which attend it. And no period of time can be happier or more prosperous, than those in which it is never regarded or heard of.”
    —David Hume (1711–1776)

    “Of course you’re always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you’ll condemn them all!”
    —Henry James (1843–1916)