Roy Moore

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.

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.

Rights come from God, not from government.

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

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.

Well, that's the - the removal from office and removal of the Ten Commandments were two different issues.

But I have made no plans to run for any office right now.

It would bother me if a judge told me how I had to believe.

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.

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 don't want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state.