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
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the… — Ulysses S. Grant 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
Both church and state claiming to be of divine origin have assumed divine right of man over woman; while church and state… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
Because we hold it for 'a fundamental and undeniable truth', that religion or 'the duty which we owe to our Creator' and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute. The idea that the church can have… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
Let them all believe whatever they want. It is pointless to go on radio shows and wrangle over mystical claims. However, such… — James A. Haught Copy Share Image
The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
In a Christian Theocracy, you'll never be Christian enough. There's always going to be somebody there with another version of Christianity that… — David Silverman Copy Share Image
Between being praised and persecuted condoned and condemned I might understandably have become bewildered particularly at the brand of ethics sometimes displayed… — Vashti McCollum Copy Share Image
Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“It just means that for liberal democracy to develop in the Muslim Middle East, it will take much more than merely removing… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
Today the separation of church and state in America is used to silence the church. When Christians speak out on issues, the… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The United States has adventured upon a great and noble experiment . . . of total separation of Church and State. .… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
There is no relationship here between Church and State. Religious liberty has its unalterable place, along with civil and human liberty, in… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have… — Bill Lee Copy Share Image
If we truly had separation of church and state, religious child grooming would be banned from publicly funded schools, and we wouldn't… — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The separation of church and state is a misnomer. People misunderstand it. Of course, it comes from a phrase that was in… — Mike Johnson Copy Share Image
The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is no separation of church and state. Modern US Supreme Courts have raped the Constitution and raped the Christian faith and… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
“Our forefathers understood the dangers of consolidated power. This is why they provided for a separation of powers within the U.S. Government… — Barry McGowan Copy Share Image
Anytime you hear the concept of the separation of church and state being talked about these days, it is never in regard… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion,… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Not one of the multicultural classicists really wishes to live under indigenous pre-Colombian ideas of government, Arabic protocols for female behavior, Chinese… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Whenever we use our religion, as individuals, or as groups within the church, to act in tandem with political and economic groups… — Megan McKenna Copy Share Image
They have kept us in submission because they have talked about separation of church and state. There is no such thing in… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
The ACLU sees the separation of church and state as so absolute that not a single religious word must be allowed to… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
And I strongly support the faith-based initiative that we're proposing, because I don't believe it violates the line between the separation of… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Whatever one's religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court's 1947 decision which introduced the wall of separation between church and state 'has fueled a movement to sterilize anything… — Mickey Edwards Copy Share Image
Religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
We believe in separation of church and state, that there should be no unwarranted influence on the church or religion by the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
This crusade to separate church and state is only one expression of my raison d'être. I'm an atheist, but I'm also an… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
... demanding a separation between church and state isn't enough; the churches' basic doctrines must be changed, with homophobia written out forever. — Michelangelo Signorile Copy Share Image
That (separation of church and state) was never in the Constitution, however much the liberals laugh at me for saying it, they… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image