I think it's very important for people who are serving (in office) to make sure there's a separation of church and state. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We have this idea in our minds that there's this separation of church and state in America, which I think is a… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute. — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
Separation of church and state should never mean separation of God and right. — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
“If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.” — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. — George Washington Copy Share Image
I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I'm Catholic. I believe life begins at conception, but I'm also American, and I believe in the separation of church and state.… — Conor Lamb Copy Share Image
We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
[I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Once involved in the school-prayer fight, I rapidly became aware of, and appalled by, the political and economic power of the Church… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has gone so far… — Anonymous 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
The Bible says we are to be salt and light. And salt and light means not just in the church and not… — Katherine Harris Copy Share Image
In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This is a lttle prayer dedicated to the separation of church and state. I guess if they are going to force those… — George Carlin 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
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
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
“There is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant opposition, persecution, and war, and all evil in the state,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is now established by verifiable evidence that religion stultifies the brain and is the great obstacle in the path of intellectual… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or… — Thomas Jefferson 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
“...legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people… — Thomas Jefferson 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
“For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has… — John F. Kennedy 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
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
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