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Church Quotes by Hugo Black
- The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest…
- The history of governmentally established religion, both in England and in this country, showed that whenever government had allied itself with one particular form of…
- When the power, prestige, and financial support of government is placed behind a particular religious belief, the indirect coercive pressure upon religious minorities to conform…
- The Establishment Clause . . . stands as an expression of principle on the part of the Founders . . . that religion is too…
- [H]istory showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread its faith.
More Church Quotes
- But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness… — Rowan Atkinson
- It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are… — Jane Austen
- If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will… — Teresa of Avila
- I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of… — Michele Bachmann
- We must never forget what government is not. Government is not a philanthropic organization. Government is not the family. And government certainly… — Michele Bachmann
- I don't know that the Libertarian Party has an official position on the separation of church and state. — Michael Badnarik
- I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large -… — Julianna Baggott
- A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump… — Russell Baker
- People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine… — Mikhail Bakunin
- I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we… — Don Adams
- See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious. — Charles Barkley
- In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians. — Karl Barth