For me, it's church and state, not church in state, and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
I believe in a wall between church and state so high that no one can climb over it. — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
The union of Church and State is not to make the Church political, but the State religious. — John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon Copy Share Image
Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. — George Washington Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as separation of church and state. It is merely a figment of the imagination of infidels. — W. A. Criswell Copy Share Image
The tenet of the separation of church and state is an unconstitutional doctrine. — Sharron Angle Copy Share Image
A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that god prefers some — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
“Real faith is never something that can be forced by the state. It’s something that either be encouraged and smiled upon or… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
The truth is, that the greatest enemies to the doctrines of Jesus are those, calling themselves the expositors of them, who have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We should begin by setting conscience free. When all men of all religions shall enjoy equal liberty, property, and an equal chance… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I strongly believe in the separation of church and state. But freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion, there is… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Not one of the multicultural classicists really wishes to live under indigenous pre-Colombian ideas of government, Arabic protocols for female behavior, Chinese… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion,… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The ACLU sees the separation of church and state as so absolute that not a single religious word must be allowed to… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
We all agree that neither the Government nor political parties ought to interfere with religious sects. It is equally true that religious… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Thanks in large measure to the ACLU, the belief that there is a wall of separation between faith and state, not just… — F. LaGard Smith Copy Share Image
Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Turning, then, from this loathsome combination of church and state, and weeping over the follies of our fellow men, who yield themselves… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
“Faith is either something that informs one at all times or it isn’t anything at all, really. When the Chinese government tells… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
We triggered a discussion in society about the connection between church and state as well as our justice system. Putin is the… — Yekaterina Samutsevich Copy Share Image
“We are at our best when we love the Lord and his church more than our style of life. We do not… — Urban Tigner Holmes Copy Share Image
“Men never fail to dwell on maternity as a disqualification for the possession of many civil and political rights. Suggest the idea… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“Church and State, will, of course, go on for ever, in spite of the fact that it is impossible for them to… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“The irony that always amazes me when I see people up in arms about our war against Islamo-fascism is how they don’t… — Brigitte Gabriel Copy Share Image
“New Rule: You don't have to teach both sides of a debate if one side is a load of crap. President Bush… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“When we seek to understand liberty, equality, progress, constitutional governance, separation of church and state, and the meaning of the American Revolution,… — R.B. Bernstein Copy Share Image
“[ Said during a debate when his opponent asserted that atheism and belief in evolution lead to Nazism :] Atheism by itself… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I cannot understand why we idle discussing religion. If we are honest—and scientists have to be—we must admit that religion is a… — Paul A.M. Dirac Copy Share Image
The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state. — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
[The notion of separating church and state with such policies as disallowing prayer in public schools] is a deception from Satan. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“Since God will have us leave father and mother for his sake, certainly he will have us leave lords (governors) for his… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty. — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
There should be absolutely no 'Separation of Church and State' in America. — David Barton Copy Share Image
A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United… — Edmund Randolph Copy Share Image