Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.