“The first thing to note, as typical of the modern tone, is a certain effect of toleration which actually results in timidity. Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.”
—G.K. Chesterton

“If you educate a man in mind only and not in morals, you educate a menace to society.”
—Theodore Roosevelt

“Democracy without religion is a democracy without morality, and a democracy without morality is an anarchy.”
—William Bennett

“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”
—Tacitus

“The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.”
—Article 1, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

“The exercise by citizens of the people’s Republic of China of their freedoms and rights may not infringe on the interests of the state, of society and of the collective, or upon the lawful freedoms and rights of other citizens.”
—Article 51, Constitution of the People’s Republic of China

“And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel. And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.”
—Exodus 24: 27-28 (KJV)