Church Quote by Alan Dershowitz

The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide…

— William Rehnquist

Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from…

— Anna Quindlen

The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.

— William Rehnquist

The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and nuts; with…

— Glenn Archer

The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public life is…

— Ben Shapiro

Religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The contemporary quarrel over church and state is not really about whether a wall of separation of church and state should exist or not...…

— James Davison Hunter

The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.

— Adam Cohen

There's a reason we seperate Church and State. The reason for the richness and the diversity of religion in this nation is because of…

— Phil Donahue

By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world…

— Barry Goldwater