Best Church And State Sayings
115 Church And State quotes by 88 unique authors
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It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.
— Sean Hannity
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Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well…
— Alcee Hastings
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We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court…
— Pete McCloskey
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Between being praised and persecuted condoned and condemned I might understandably have become bewildered particularly at the brand of ethics sometimes displayed by the staunch…
— Unknown Author
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Some people prefer not to commingle the functional, lambda-calculus part of a language with the parts that do side effects. It seems they believe in…
— Guy Steele
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One faith, one law and one standard of justice did not mean democracy. The heresy of democracy has since then worked havoc in church and…
— R.J. Rushdoony
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It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth…
— Jon Meacham
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Now I realize it's fashionable in some circles to believe that no one in government should encourage others to read the Bible. That we're told…
— Ronald Reagan
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The goal of this office will not be to favor one religious group over another - or even religious groups over secular groups. It will…
— Barack Obama
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Near the end of the 1700s, philosophers began to declare that humans were rational individuals. People were flattered by being recognized as individuals, and by…
— Alex Pentland
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Thomas Jefferson declared, stating that he was speaking on behalf of the other founding fathers, ...(that) we should build a wall between the church and…
— Jimmy Carter
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I wish, in America, (that) we were as concerned about separation from church and sin as we are about separation between church and state. Church…
— Leonard Ravenhill
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Everyone in the United States is so intense about maintaining a separation between Church and State when the real concern should be about keeping a…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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The fact that we became a nation and immediately separated church and state - it has saved us from all the misery that has beset…
— Dumas Malone
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Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial society -- and the…
— Ayn Rand
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I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to…
— Adam Rickitt
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From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State; and from you we gather inspiration at all times in…
— Seth Low
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Earlier in my political career, I had the opportunity to read the speech, and I almost threw up. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/post/santorum-says-he-almost-threw-up-after-reading-jfk-speech-on-separation-of-church-and-state/2012/02/26/gIQA91hubR_blog.html)
— Michael C. Burgess
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The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Why has America's fringe left been making common cause with the Taliban, whose views on such matters as women's rights and separation of church and…
— James Taranto
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Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning.
— Saadi
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Each of us has the choice to attend the church we want to, or none at all. Separation of church and state allows for religions…
— Pauley Perrette
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News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there…
— Leslie Moonves
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The United States has adventured upon a great and noble experiment . . . of total separation of Church and State. . . . The…
— John Tyler
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The divorce between church and state should be absolute.
— James A. Garfield
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