Quotes by Roy Moore

“Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.”

“But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such.”

“The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows.”

“The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power.”

“The Constitution was about a limitation on power.”

“Power's not what the Constitution was about.”

“The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, that the duties we owe to God and the manner of discharging those duties are outside the purview of...”

“Anytime you deny the acknowledgement of God you are undermining the entire basis for which our country exists.”

“It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God fr...”

“But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.”

“The point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment.”

“If God gives you rights, no man and no government can take them away from you.”

“If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.”

“And government's only role is to secure our rights for us.”

“Rights come from God, not from government.”

“The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were outside of government's prerogative, that government had no business interfering with the way we...”

“Homosexual conduct is, and has been, considered abhorrent, immoral, detestable, a crime against nature, and a violation of the laws of nature and of nature’s God upon which this nation and our laws...”

“Ignoring the lessons of our history, Obama’s economic policies of big government, enlarged federal control over our lives and eventually, as even he predicts, increased taxation has garnered a name...”

“I’m a very strict constructionist of the Constitution and I know how to question, or I know how to vet—to use the word that the press uses all the time—candidates for judicial offices, and I think ...”

“I think the 60-vote rule allows people to avoid voting on controversial issues by hiding behind a rule, now, I understand the argument of the parties that the party in the majority may change and t...”