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Separation Quotes by James Madison
- Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies may…
- The civil government ... functions with complete success ... by the total separation of the Church from the State.
- It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the Civil authority with…
- What is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue this part [the necessary and proper clause] of the Constitution and exercise powers…
- Nothing has yet been offered to invalidate the doctrine that the meaning of the Constitution may as well be ascertained by the Legislative as by…
- I acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the exposition of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the judicial. But I beg to know…
- [I]n the next place, to show that unless these departments be so far connected and blended as to give to each a constitutional control over…
- [T]he great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer each department the…
- A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.
- To what expedient then shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as laid down in…
- The Constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the Legislature the power of declaring a state of war [and] the power of raising armies.... A delegation…
- Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance.
- The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe…
- The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of…
More Separation Quotes
- The real master is only a presence. He has no intentions of being a master. His presence is his teaching. His love… — Rajneesh
- And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened… — Bible
- However, when we shift our awareness or "frequency" from self-consciousness - where fear, impossibility or feelings of separation reside - to cosmic… — Rhonda Byrne
- If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial… — C.S. Lewis
- The Chinese used the symbol of tai chi, the undifferentiated reality - no separation, no left and right. — Frederick Lenz
- Sometimes we have to be away from the people we love, but that doesn't make us love them any less, sometimes it… — Nishan Panwar
- I don't know that the Libertarian Party has an official position on the separation of church and state. — Michael Badnarik
- I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough… — George Carlin