Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.