“If a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others, then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion. The Establishment Clause does not license government to treat religion and those who teach or practice it…

“The choice facing the nation is between two totally different ways of life. And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark, divisive clouds of Marxist socialism and…

“The American feels too rich in his opportunities for free expression that he often no longer knows what he is free from. Neither does he know where he is not free; he does not recognize his native autocrats when he…

“A free society can exist only when public spirit is balanced by an equal inclination of men to mind their own business.” Edward A. Shils, (1910-1995) American professor, sociologist. Source: The Torment of Secrecy, 1956. Source Reference Edward A. Shils…

“The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable.” C. Van Woodward, (1908-1999) American historian. Source: Report On Free Speech, New York…

“Former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart noted (in his dissent of Abington Township, 1963) ‘if religious exercises are held to be impermissible activity in schools, religion is placed at an artificial and state-created disadvantage. Permission for such exercises for those…

“Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” George Washington, (1732-1799) Founding Father, 1st US President, ‘Father of the Country’. Source Reference George Washington Quote

“The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized learning…. And, even since the Reformation, when or where has existed a Protestant or dissenting sect who would tolerate A FREE INQUIRY? The blackest billingsgate, the most ungentlemanly insolence, the most…

“A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society.” Walter Lippmann, (1889-1974) American writer, journalist, and political commentator. Source Reference Walter Lippmann Quote

“Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.” Walter Lippmann, (1889-1974) American writer, journalist, and political commentator. Source Reference Walter Lippmann Quote

“God requireth not a uniformity of religion.” Roger Williams, (1603-1684) Anglo-American clergyman, advocate for the separation of church and state, founder of the Rhode Island colony. Source: “A Plea for Religious Liberty” in The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution, for Cause of…

“[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men’s blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.” John Locke, (1632-1704) English philosopher and political theorist. Source Reference John Locke…