Religious faith is not a storm cellar to which men and women can flee for refuge from the storms of life. It is instead, an inner spiritual strength which enables them to face those storms with hope and serenity. — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at… — Sam Ervin 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, political liberty… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states, that is,… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
I believe in a wall between church and state so high that no one can climb over it. — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
Humor makes our heavy burdens light and smoothes the rough spots in our pathways. — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers,… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
Religious faith is not a storm cellar to which men and women can flee for refuge from the storms of life. It is instead,… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
What James Madison and the other men of his generation had in mind when they wrote the First Amendment was that there should be… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God. — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
Recalling an old magistrate's words to a young attorney, The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella; But chiefly… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image