If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle. — George Washington Copy Share Image
I am not a spokesperson for the church and the church is not a spokesperson for the United States of America. — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Some people have a fear of rejecting all the security that comes with family, church and state. They become fundamentalists. — Harold Ramis 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
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
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
When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson declared, stating that he was speaking on behalf of the other founding fathers, ...(that) we should build a wall between… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I believe in an America ... where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I think very few people realize how much the separation of church and state has to do with the fact that Americans… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
“Prosecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly-marked feature of all law-religious, or religions established… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To try to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy is absolutely crazy. Islam has no understanding of the separation between church and… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The goal of this office will not be to favor one religious group over another - or even religious groups over secular… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter.… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“Oh golly, Brer Fox, your forthright assertion—that evolutionary biology disproves the idea of a creator God—jeopardises the teaching of biology in science… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“How could the Christian Church, apparently quite willingly, accommodate this weird megalomaniac [Constantine] in it's theocratic system? Was there a conscious bargain?… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Today the separation of church and state is America is used to silence the church... The way the concept is used today… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I believe in a wall between church and state so high that no one can climb over it. When religion controls government,… — Sam Ervin 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
“For indeed, the Church is divinely constituted and lives by her own right, not by privilege. Who ever would have granted her… — Louis Veuillot Copy Share Image
“manufacturing false hierarchies based on race and gender in order to enforce a brutal class system is a very long story. Our… — Naomi Klein 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 office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous. Jesus had to work on the perilous confines… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The American Revolution is sometimes said to have brought about the separation of church and state. The northern states made such declarations,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Most of us are pseudo-scholars...for we are a very large and quite a powerful class, eminent in Church and State, we control… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“We should wash the fur of the magistrate and clean out his mouth whether he laughs or rages. Christ has instructed us… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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
Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning. — Saadi Copy Share Image
I would suggest the taxation of all property equally whether church or corporation. — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“Church and State are both rent, by the tugging of the demonic and the Divine” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
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