Put these words on your head and let them percolate We…

You need to separate the fans and the players.

— Marcus Smart

You can separate the church and state all you like, but Christmas is inescapable, and it's marvellous, and it's not going away.

— Robert Rinder

Church and state are, and must remain, separate.

— Ronald Reagan

Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled.

— Millard Fillmore

In this type of situation you need to separate the two sets of girls and then you have to separate the hippopotamus from her…

— The Situation

We have to separate here the church in its broad sense. We have Catholics, Protestants, Eastern Orthodox churches. The Catholic church is a corporation…

— Manfred Gerstenfeld

I grew up in a French-dominated Catholic part of the country. I was an altar boy. I went to Catholic school. I have a…

— James Carville

“For the civil government can give no new right to the church, nor the church to the civil government. So that, whether the magistrate…

— John Locke

I questioned the faithful of all communions; I particularly sought the society of clergymen, who are the depositories of the various creeds and have…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief. Nor will we ever. Church and state are, and…

— Ronald Reagan

I do not make decisions [as governor] based on what have I learned through my Bible studies, what have I learned in my religious…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?

— Christine O'Donnell

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

— George Bernard Shaw

“I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both…

— George Carlin

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for…

— Thomas Jefferson