Top 55 Quotes & Sayings by Roy Moore
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American judge Roy Moore.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
If God gives you rights, no man and no government can take them away from you.
The Constitution was about a limitation on power.
If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.
Power's not what the Constitution was about.
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.
They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge.
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 government.
It would bother me if a judge told me how I had to believe.
The point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment.
To do my duty, I must obey God.
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 from government.
But I have made no plans to run for any office right now.
It is altogether proper for people to recognize a sovereign God.
The Church's role should be separated from the state's role.
They don't want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state.
I was asked three times directly in the hearing before the board of the judiciary whether or not I would continue to acknowledge God if I were to resume my position as chief justice. And I said I would.
But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.
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.
And government's only role is to secure our rights for us.
Well, I think that we have to continue to fight for what we believe.
But in the long term, I think it is improper to limit your future.
Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.
Well, that's the - the removal from office and removal of the Ten Commandments were two different issues.
Anytime you deny the acknowledgement of God you are undermining the entire basis for which our country exists.
No, I think that we've got a basic discrepancy here between the rule of law versus the rule of man.
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.
I know Dr. Kennedy and I know Coral Ridge Ministries. I have no connection.
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 worship God.
Rights come from God, not from government.
The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.
If you're here tonight to support me, you shouldn't be here. This is not about me. This is about something far more important. It transcends race, it transcends politics, it transcends gender. This is about the laws of God.
America the Beautiful, or so you used to be,
Land of the Pilgrims' pride, I'm glad they're not here to see,
Babies piled in dumpsters, abortion on demand,
Oh, sweet land of liberty, your house is on the sand.
All the Ten Commandments and prayer is an acknowledgement of the Almighty God. We will not back down from that.
Acknowledgment of God is not now, or ever has been, a violation of the US constitution.
You wonder why we're having shootings and killings here in 2017? Because we've asked for it. We've taken prayer out of school.
Homosexual behavior is a ground for divorce, an act of sexual misconduct punishable as a crime in Alabama, a crime against nature, an inherent evil, and an act so heinous that it defies one's ability to describe it. The homosexual conduct of a parent - conduct involving a sexual relationship between two persons of the same gender - creates a strong presumption of unfitness that alone is sufficient justification for denying that parent custody.
If they want to get [my statue of] the Commandments, they're going to have to get me first.
False religions like Islam who teach that you must worship this way, are completely opposite with what our First Amendment stands for.
America promotes a lot of bad things, you know. Same-sex marriage, for example.
To restore morality we must first recognize the source from which all morality springs. From our earliest history in 1776 when we were declared to be the United States of America, our forefathers recognized the sovereignty of God.
We've voted in a government that's rotting at the core, Appointing Godless Judges who throw reason out the door, Too soft to place a killer in a well deserved tomb, But brave enough to kill a baby before he leaves the womb.
Worship With Your Vote.
We may have failed to teach our children right from wrong, but we've done a great job of teaching self-esteem!
I consider it my duty to acknowledge God. To take down the Ten Commandments and to stop holding prayer would be a violation of that duty. I will not take down the Ten Commandments and I will not stop holding prayer.
God has chosen this time and this place so we can save our country and save our courts for our children
The time has come to recover the valiant courage of our forefathers, who understood that faith and freedom are inseparable, and that they are worth fighting for.
The monument serves to remind the appellate courts and judges of the circuit and district courts of this state and members of the bar who appear before them as well as the people of Alabama who visit the Alabama Judicial Building of the truth stated in the preamble of the Alabama Constitution, that in order to establish justice we must invoke the favor and guidance of Almighty God.
That's not the federal law. What you're confusing is law with the opinion of a justice, what one lone federal judge says is not law.
Separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.
The free exercise clause of the constitution does not apply to any religion but Christianity. [because none of the other religions are legitimate religions.].
I must acknowledge God. It says so in the Constitution of Alabama. It says so in the First Amendment of the Constitution.
There is no such thing as evolution.
Without God there would be no freedom to believe what you want.
Now we have blacks and whites fighting, reds and yellows fighting, Democrats and Republicans fighting, men and women fighting.
I feel that I'm sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Alabama, and those constitutions are founded upon a fundamental belief in God ... my display of the Ten Commandments and prayer before sessions are simply acknowledgments of God.
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