"Reminders of Tolerance" — The Dallas Morning News, editorial (www.dallasnews.com)

"He persuasively contended that on important moral and political questions, his faith convictions are well within the mainstream of American history. In so doing, a passionate Mr. Romney delivered one of the clearest articulations of our civic religion by any presidential candidate in recent memory."

"Mr. Romney contrasted the American genius for accommodating religion in public life with Europe's history — state religion, followed by sterile secularism — and the Islamic world, where a totalist creed often persecutes dissenters."

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"One Nation Under Mitt" — Kathleen Parker, The Washington Post Writers Group (washingtonpost.com)

"That may be the most valuable result of Romney's speech. He raised the bar by focusing on broad principles of religious freedom, rather than on the small details of doctrinal differences. In the process, he elevated everyone — even those not-so-deserving."

"Romney's clear attempt to assuage evangelical Christians that he and they are on the same page, if not always on the same scripture, may not satisfy some in the born-again camp. But those who resist Romney's higher calling to true religious liberty might profit from a moment of introspection."

"Perhaps it took someone more recently persecuted for his beliefs to remind us that 'religious tolerance would be a shallow principle indeed if it were reserved only for faiths with which we agree.' Indeed. Or, as they say, amen."