It was very natural that people just think of me as a comic actor.
God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state.
The greatest crime is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.
But who is to decide who truly fears the Lord? The magistrate has no power to enforce religious demands. The laws of the First Table of the Ten Commandments are not regulations for a civil society or a political order. They belong to the realm of religion, not politics.
It is less hurtful to compel a man to marry someone whom he does not love than to follow a religion in which he does not believe.
The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.
God is too large to be housed under one roof.
I think, for the good of the country and the fact that you don't want a question coming up every time there's a decision made, [Donald Trump] should basically take himself out of it and just be a passive participant in the sense that he has no decision-making, no involvement and no decisions get made separate from him. Which is the way the way it's done for more Cabinet offices. Or I think all Cabinet offices.
Let’s not forget that American democracy started with ‘We the People’ agreeing to work hard to create ‘a more perfect union. ’ We’ve lost the idea that politics begins at home with what happens in families, in neighborhoods, in classrooms, in congregations. We called this democracy into being – and if we want to call this democracy back to its highest values, it’s got to be the us doing that calling. That’s not going to happen if ‘We the People’ don’t know how to talk to one another with civility and hold our differences in a creative, life-giving way.
I think sometimes you have to just imagine something that looks pretty impossible. By imagining something that is impossible, automatically you wish you could make it possible.
We admit of no government by divine right, believing that so far as power is concerned the Beneficent Creator has made no distinction amongst men; that all are upon an equality, and that the only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.