American society Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.

— Jesse Ventura

I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This…

— Thomas Jefferson

The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion.

— Philip Schaff

Government...may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or…

— Abe Fortas

The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.

— James Buchanan

The Constitution has never treated religion as merely another private opinion that government can order people to keep to themselves.

— Josh Hawley

The government of the United States is not in any sense founded upon the Christian religion.

— John Adams

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

— Jeremy Bentham

The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.

— Anonymous

Politics must not be separated from religious values; religion must not be separated from political responsibility.

— Joel Hunter

The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn't say keep religion out of government.

— Rand Paul