Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled. — Millard Fillmore Copy Share Image
It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state. — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
You're telling me that the separation of church and state is found in the First Amendment? — Christine O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. — James Madison Copy Share Image
No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance. — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
The government of the United States of America has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws. — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Whenever we use our religion, as individuals, or as groups within the church, to act in tandem with political and economic groups… — Megan McKenna Copy Share Image
They have kept us in submission because they have talked about separation of church and state. There is no such thing in… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have… — Bill Lee Copy Share Image
If we truly had separation of church and state, religious child grooming would be banned from publicly funded schools, and we wouldn't… — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute. The idea that the church can have… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
“To the USSR on Stalin's death: "Regardless of the identity of government personalities, the prayer of us Americans continues to be that… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The United States has adventured upon a great and noble experiment . . . of total separation of Church and State. .… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
“Government in our democracy, state and national, must be neutral in matters of religious theory, doctrine, and practice. It may not be… — Abe Fortas Copy Share Image
Today courts wrongly interpret separation of church and state to mean that religion has no place in the public arena, or that… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“New Rule: Death isn’t always sad. This week, the Reverend Jerry Falwell died, and millions of Americans asked, “Why? Why, God? Why…didn’t… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“What is even more striking than the negational character of this political culture is the absence of robust and constructive affirmations. Vibrant… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
“Secularism in the Christian world was an attempt to resolve the long and destructive struggle of church and state. Separation, adopted in… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
“AND LOOK AT WHAT WE CALL ‘RELIGION’: TURN ON ANY TELEVISION ON ANY SUNDAY MORNING! SEE THE CHOIRS OF THE POOR AND… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I believe in absolute freedom of conscience for all men and equality of all churches, all sects and all beliefs before the… — Al Smith Copy Share Image
“A final irony has to do with the idea of political responsibility. Christians are urged to vote and become involved in politics… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that sanctifies the separation of church and state. — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history. — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The union of church and state put the church under a political control... The church was thoroughly subordinated to the state. — H. J Eckenrode Copy Share Image
I believe in the separation of church and state and would not use my authority to violate this principle in any way. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“God is wrath and God is mercy. The State is the instrument of his wrath, the Church of his mercy” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I do not speak for my church on public matters; and the church does not speak for me. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Lord, there's danger in this land, you get witch hunts and wars when church and state hold hands. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
