Acknowledgment Quote by Barbara Brandriff Crabb

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

— John Paul Stevens

Government sponsorship of religious activity, including prayer services, sacred symbols, religious festivals, and the like, tends to secularize the religious activity rather than make…

— John M Swomley

“...legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared…

— Thomas Jefferson

While anyone who practices a religion has the right to their own religious truths, it doesn't give them the right to violate the welfare…

— Marianne Thieme

[I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it is the especial duty…

— Joseph Story

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this…

— Mitt Romney

We're a very religious country; the government's secular.

— Tucker Carlson

The constitutional prohibition against laws respecting an establishment of religion must at least mean that in this country it is no part of the…

— Hugo Black

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government.

— Mitt Romney

Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.

— Michael Newdow

We urge all people to recognize that religious freedom requires not trying to use the power of government to force religious ideas on others.

— Ed Buckner

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