I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both… — 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
