The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state… — Roy Moore Copy Share Image
I think there is a puritanical wind that is blowing. I have never seen such a lack of separation between church and… — Kevin Bacon Copy Share Image
News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that… — Leslie Moonves Copy Share Image
I have never met a happy atheist. I believe in separation of church and state, but I think we have gone so… — Dixie Carter Copy Share Image
I am tolerant of all creeds. Yet if any sect suffered itself to be used for political objects I would meet it… — Millard Fillmore Copy Share Image
To me the separation of church and state is a thread that ought to run through public policy so that we can… — Barry W. Lynn Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there's… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
For ten centuries Christianity, armed with the omnipotence of the Church and State and opposed by no competition, was able to deprave,… — Mikhail Bakunin 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
We in the United States, above all, must remember that lesson, for we were founded as a nation of openness to people… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I have no respect for the right-to-life position. But when you legislate personal belief, you're in violation of freedom of religion. The… — John Irving Copy Share Image
But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
Constantine, the Emperor, saw something in the religion of Christ's people which awakened his interest, and now we see him uniting religion… — George W Truett Copy Share Image
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
No other nation has literally been born out of a desire to be faithful and obedient to the living and abiding Word… — John MacArthur Copy Share Image
In the case Stone v. Graham, the Supreme Court ruled that - under 'separation of church and state' - it was unconstitutional… — David Barton Copy Share Image
The fact that we became a nation and immediately separated church and state - it has saved us from all the misery… — Dumas Malone Copy Share Image
I wish, in America, (that) we were as concerned about separation from church and sin as we are about separation between church… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
[The Drafters of the Constitution] were intent on avoiding more than 100 years of religious intolerance and persecution in American colonial history… — John M Swomley Copy Share Image
Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the… — James Madison 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
“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
An enforced uniformity of religion throughout a nation or civil state, confounds the civil and religious, denies the principles of Christianity and… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Christmas: It's the only religious holiday that's also a federal holiday. That way, Christians can go to their services, and everyone else… — Samantha Bee Copy Share Image
It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
One area where American Jews have something to teach Israel is religious pluralism, something that living in a democracy with a separation… — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
The contemporary quarrel over church and state is not really about whether a wall of separation of church and state should exist… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
Alongside my own deep personal faith, I am a follower, as well, of our civic religion. I am a big believer in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“When Church and State are separate, the effects are happy, and they do not at all interfere with each other; but where… — Isaac Backus Copy Share Image
I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
One faith, one law and one standard of justice did not mean democracy. The heresy of democracy has since then worked havoc… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State; and from you we gather inspiration at… — Seth Low 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
The problem is efforts by liberals to establish a wall between religion and society, in the guise of maintaining the wall between… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
“After all, church and state simply did not mix. You could claim it when it looked good or you needed the evangelical… — Kenneth Evans Copy Share Image
Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious… — Alcee Hastings Copy Share Image
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