“The cross is a crisis point for all societies which seek to produce me in and women of quiescence, men and women… — Megan McKenna Copy Share Image
The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The tenet of the separation of church and state is an unconstitutional doctrine. — Sharron Angle Copy Share Image
“We are at our best when we love the Lord and his church more than our style of life. We do not… — Urban Tigner Holmes Copy Share Image
Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial society… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The First Amendment...does not say that in every respect there shall be a separation of Church and State....Otherwise the state and religion… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes.… — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
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
For me, it's church and state, not church in state, and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
America wasn't founded as a theocracy. America was founded by people trying to escape theocracies. Never in history have we had a… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
Churches can easily bring together, in a short period of time, a substantial number of people, and politicians have to assume that… — Anthony B Pinn Copy Share Image
God Bless America started to become an almost ritualistic incantation at the end of political speeches really with Ronald Reagan. It appears… — Susan Jacoby 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
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
Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. — George Washington 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
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
“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
If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
“One of the required courses in school on this new world was the study of creation; the creation of the universe. This… — Kenneth S. Murray Copy Share Image
But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
