Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2002-10-04 Oct 4, 2002Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.~ William PennThere can be no prescription old enough to supersede the Law of Nature and the grant of God Almighty, who has given to all men a natural right to be free, and they have it ordinarily in their power to make themselves so, if they please.~ James OtisKings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source -- from the King of kings, and Lord of all the earth. They are not annexed to us by parchments and seals. They are created in us by the decrees of Providence, which establish the laws of our nature. They are born with us; exist with us; and cannot be taken from us by any human power, without taking our lives.~ John Dickinson Oct 3, 2002The fact that we became a nation and immediately separated church and state -- it has saved us from all the misery that has beset mankind with inquisitions, internecine and civil wars, and other assorted ills.~ Dumas MaloneMen never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.~ Blaise Pascal Oct 2, 2002The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.~ Justice Robert H. JacksonLet us revise our views and work from the premise that all laws should be for the welfare of society as a whole and not directed at the punishment of sins.~ John Biggs Jr.Remember, there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.~ Frank Zappa Oct 1, 2002The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts as are only 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 JeffersonOur civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.~ Thomas Jefferson Sep 30, 2002In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds -- that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous.~ Justice Robert H. JacksonIt is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.~ Murray N. RothbardOf all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.~ Thomas Paine Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print