“I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down.” Henry Brooks Adams, (1838-1918) Pulitzer prize-winning historian (1919), great-grandson of John Adams,…

“I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.” James A. Garfield, (1831-1881) 20th President of the United States (1881), assassinated. Source Reference James A. Garfield Quote

“Everyone has the right…to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers.” United Nations, Source: Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 19, 1948. Source Reference United Nations Quote

“The First Amendment does not require students to leave their religion at the schoolhouse door. … If students can wear T-shirts advertising sports teams, rock groups or politicians, they can also wear T-shirts that promote religion. … Religion is too…

“A man should be upright, not be kept upright.” Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, (121 AD -180 AD) Roman Emperor, 161-180 AD. Source: Meditations, Book III, 5  (c.161-180 AD). Source Reference Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Quote

“Well-meaning Americans in the name of freedom have taken freedom away. For the sake of religious tolerance, they’ve forbidden religious practice.” Ronald Reagan, Source:  National Day of Prayer, May 6, 1982. Source Reference Ronald Reagan Quote

“If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed by the Convention, where I had the honor to preside, might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical Society, certainly I would never have placed my signature…

“The state may not establish a ‘religion of secularism’ in the sense of affirmatively opposing or showing hostility to religion, thus ‘preferring those who believe in no religion over those who do believe.” Justice Potter Stewart, (1915-1985) Associate Justice of…

“The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call – in enemy nations – ‘state indoctrination.” Jonathan Kozol, (1936- ) American writer, educator, activist,…

“Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.” Mortimer Adler, (1902-2001). Source Reference Mortimer Adler Quote

“In almost every act of our lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business or in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and…

“The First Amendment was never intended to insulate our public institutions from any mention of God, the Bible or religion. When such insulation occurs, another religion, such as secular humanism, is effectively established.” Crockett v. Sorenson, Source:  U.S. District Court…