“Compelling a man by law to pay his money to elect candidates or advocate law or doctrines he is against differs only in degree, if at all, from compelling him by law to speak for a candidate, a party, or a cause he is against. The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenWritingFirstsCountryReasonGovernmentLawSpeakWishCausesPartyPayLibertyDegreesWorshipDoctrineCommandCandidatesAmendmentsCompellingFirst Amendment Author:Hugo Black
“From the standpoint of freedom of speech and the press, it is enough to point out that the state has no legitimate interest in protecting any or all religions from views distasteful to them... It is not the business of government to suppress real or imagined attacks upon a particular religious doctrine.” RealStatesEnoughGovernmentInterestReligiousViewsLibertyParticularSpeechPressesDoctrineFreedom Of SpeechStandpointDistasteful Author:Tom C. Clark
“American liberty is being destroyed by Marxist doctrines that explain society in terms of hegemonic and oppressed groups - whether classes, races or genders - fighting for suzerainty. In these societies spun out of Marxist theorizing, good will does not exist, only the material interests of warring groups. Morality resides in the oppressed, but if the oppressed succeed in becoming hegemonic, their claim to moral supremacy evaporates.” IfsDoeFightingTermInterestRaceLibertyMoralClassGroupsMaterialsBecomingMoralitySucceedClaimsGenderDoctrineDestroyedOppressedGood WillSupremacyMarxistSpunAmerican Liberty Author:Paul Craig Roberts
“I am a believer in liberty . That is my religion to give to every other human being every right that I claim for myself, and I grant to every other human being, not the right because it is his right but instead of granting I declare that it is his right, to attack every doctrine that I maintain, to answer every argument that I may urge in other words, he must have absolute freedom of speech.” GivingHumansMayHuman BeingsAnswersLibertySpeechArgumentClaimsAbsolutesBelieverDoctrineUrgesGrantsFreedom Of SpeechAbsolute Freedom Book:Miscellany Source: Miscellany
“The establishment of religious freedom was no less momentous an achievement than the clearing of the great forest or the winning of independence, for the twin doctrines of separation of church and state and liberty of individual conscience are the marrow of our democracy, if not indeed America's most magnificent contribution to the freeing of Western man.” IfsMenStatesAmericaWinningIndividualChurchReligiousLibertyDemocracyAtheismAchievementConscienceIndependenceWesternPositive AtheismSeparationForestsDoctrineContributionEstablishmentTwinsMagnificentChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateReligious FreedomClearingMarrow Author:Clinton Rossiter
“I never thought it was right to call up a man and try him because he erred in doctrine, it looks too much like methodism and not like Latter day Saintism. Methodists have creeds which a man must believe or be kicked out of their church. I want the liberty of believing as I please, it feels so good not to be tramelled.” MenWantFeelsTryingBelieveLooksChurchLibertyToo MuchPleaseDoctrineLatterCreedsLatter DaysMethodistsLatter Day Saints Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“Let the pulpit resound with the doctrines and sentiments of religious liberty... Let us hear the dignity of his [man's] nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God... Let it be known, that British liberties are not the grants of princes or parliaments.” MenReligiousKnownLibertyDignityBritishNobleDoctrineGrantsSentimentsParliamentPulpitReligious Liberty Author:John Adams
“What threatens civilization today is not war, but the changing conception of life values entailed by certain political doctrines. Only by recapturing the dream of human freedom and restoring the importance of the common man's liberties can that undermining threat to modern civilization be averted” MenHumansWarDreamTodayPoliticalCertainValuesCommonLibertyModernCivilizationImportanceThreatDoctrineConceptionCommon ManRestoringHuman FreedomUnderminingModern Civilization Author:Lin Yutang
“Here we are, then, once more back at the old doctrine - Laissez faire. Let us translate it into blunt English, and it will read, Mind your own business. It is nothing but the doctrine of liberty. Let every man be happy in his own way.” MenWayMindLibertyEvery ManDoctrineTranslateOwn BusinessBluntLaissez FaireMind Your Own BusinessMind Your Own Book:What Social Classes Owe to Each Other Source: What Social Classes Owe to Each Other
“I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.” IfsMenMindLibertyDoubtDangerousCrimeDoctrineThriveCreedsAccord Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began.” MenShouldLooksSelfFatherInterestWhiteLibertyRichWiseBattleIndependencePursuitDoctrineLook UpEntitledEvidentDeclarationWhite ManPosterityPursuit Of HappinessStatesmenRich ManDeclaration Of IndependenceFactionsLife Liberty And The Pursuit Of Happiness Author:Abraham Lincoln
“I think that we're guided by the motto in "essentials unity, non essentials liberty and in all things charity." So if pastors compromise essential Christian doctrine, I think that there is a biblical warrant for naming them.” IfsThinkingChristianLibertyEssentialsAll ThingsUnityCharityDoctrineCompromiseBiblicalPastorMottoWarrantsChristian Doctrine Author:Hank Hanegraaff