The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
The problem is efforts by liberals to establish a wall between religion and society, in the guise of maintaining the wall between… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State; and from you we gather inspiration at… — Seth Low Copy Share Image
One faith, one law and one standard of justice did not mean democracy. The heresy of democracy has since then worked havoc… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
“After all, church and state simply did not mix. You could claim it when it looked good or you needed the evangelical… — Kenneth Evans Copy Share Image
There's a separation of church and state. If you want the perks that churches have traditionally received, then abide by the rules.… — Anthony B Pinn Copy Share Image
Extremist groups like People for the American Way attack Christians who run for public office as a threat to the 'separation of… — Ronald H. Nash Copy Share Image
“Strangers, modest enough elsewhere, started up at dinners in Coketown, and boasted, in quite a rampant way, of Bounderby. They made him… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“As the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, — as it has in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's no question that a public official of either party can take it too far, and it's up to the candidate to… — Bob Casey, Jr Copy Share Image
I was overwhelmed by the number of calls we got from people offering to rent us houses, to take us out to… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Total separation of church and state was considered the best safeguard for the health of each. As [Andrew] Jackson explained, in refusing… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
“When Church and State are separate, the effects are happy, and they do not at all interfere with each other; but where… — Isaac Backus Copy Share Image
Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Christians - at least Christians in a liberal democracy - have accepted, after Thomas Hobbes, that they must obey the secular rule… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
“At one time long ago the separation of church and state was the issue , Today the issue of the separation of… — Norbert F Hoffmann II Copy Share Image
“The American tradition of separation of church and state grew directly from the freethinking of the Founders. After political independence, they considered… — Joshua Wolf Shenk Copy Share Image
I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic prelate would tell the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I believe in the separation of church and state. We all have our own religious beliefs. There are people out there who… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
I believe in the absolute separation of church and state and in the strict enforcement of the Constitution that Congress shall make… — Al Smith Copy Share Image
I talk about a Christianity that is enlightened enough to separate spirituality from the rest of life. Not just church and state,… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
A corporation is simply a form of organization used by human beings to achieve desired ends... Protecting the free-exercise rights of corporations… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
[The Drafters of the Constitution] were intent on avoiding more than 100 years of religious intolerance and persecution in American colonial history… — John M Swomley Copy Share Image
I wish, in America, (that) we were as concerned about separation from church and sin as we are about separation between church… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
The fact that we became a nation and immediately separated church and state - it has saved us from all the misery… — Dumas Malone Copy Share Image
To me the separation of church and state is a thread that ought to run through public policy so that we can… — Barry W. Lynn Copy Share Image
I am tolerant of all creeds. Yet if any sect suffered itself to be used for political objects I would meet it… — Millard Fillmore Copy Share Image
No other nation has literally been born out of a desire to be faithful and obedient to the living and abiding Word… — John MacArthur Copy Share Image
In the case Stone v. Graham, the Supreme Court ruled that - under 'separation of church and state' - it was unconstitutional… — David Barton Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there's… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that… — Leslie Moonves Copy Share Image
I think there is a puritanical wind that is blowing. I have never seen such a lack of separation between church and… — Kevin Bacon Copy Share Image
I have never met a happy atheist. I believe in separation of church and state, but I think we have gone so… — Dixie Carter Copy Share Image
I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of… — Adam Rickitt Copy Share Image
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