History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state are absolute. — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong. — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power. — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years? — John Adams Copy Share Image
There's a reason we seperate Church and State. The reason for the richness and the diversity of religion in this nation is… — Phil Donahue Copy Share Image
“The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The arbitrary division between church and state... is used, as an easily identifiable rallying point, to subdue the opinions of that vast… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
US is a very religious country. Separation of church and state is part of our credo, but that it is hard to… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
The current version of... separation of church and state says you can be salt, and you can be light, but only inside… — David Barton Copy Share Image
I do not make decisions [as governor] based on what have I learned through my Bible studies, what have I learned in… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downwards through the mud and slush of opinion and tradition, and pride… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Liberalism is a creation of the seventeenth century, fathered by British philosopher John Locke (1632–1704). For Locke, liberalism means limited government, the… — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
It is the wall of separation between church and state . . . that is largely responsible for religion thriving in this… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Do you know, where does this phrase "separation of Church and State" come from? It was not in Jefferson's letter to the… — Glen Urquhart Copy Share Image
We have this idea in our mind that there's a separation of church and state in America, which I think is a… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The decision for complete religious freedom and for separation of church and state in the eyes of the rest of the world… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
What is dangerous about the far right is not that it takes religion seriously - most of us do - but rather… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
“You can make a successful run for political office in this country without an especially thick résumé, any exceptional talent for expressing… — Frank Bruni Copy Share Image
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The bedrock of this country are immigration and, really, a great separation between church and state. — Shahid Khan Copy Share Image
Separation of Church and State is the perineum of America and the episiotomy didn't hold. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
Anybody that believes in separation of church and state needs to leave right now. — Star Parker Copy Share Image
Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties. — James Monroe Copy Share Image
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The founding fathers of the U.S. were right when they erected that wall between church and state. — Jim Starlin Copy Share Image
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of… — Pete McCloskey Copy Share Image
God has appointed two kinds of government in the world, which are distinct in their nature, and ought never to be confounded… — Isaac Backus Copy Share Image
I believe in the separation of church and state. The government has the right to say what happens in a civil case,… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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