Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties. — James Monroe Copy Share Image
The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion. — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is contrary to the principles of reason and justice that any should be compelled to contribute to the maintenance of a… — George Mason Copy Share Image
The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation is ever dangerous. — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against… — James Madison 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
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
We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. — James Madison 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
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
“Every new & successful example therefore of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters , is of importance. And I have… — 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
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
I believe in the separation of church and state. The government has the right to say what happens in a civil case,… — Jimmy Carter 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
