About Quote by Charlie Pierce

Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.

— William Penn

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.

— Ginny Brown-Waite

“Now a government is secure insofar as it has God for its foundation and His Will for its guide; but this, surely, is not…

— Seraphim Rose

“Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity…

— Benjamin Rush

I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.

— Thomas Jefferson

Government is a true religion: it has its dogmas, its mysteries, its priests. To submit it to the individual discussion is to destroy it;…

— Joseph de Maistre

The government to you is what God is to agnostics--only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.

— Amitav Ghosh

It belongs to American liberty to separate entirely the institution which has for its object the support and diffusion of religion from the political…

— Francis Lieber

It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Anonymous

It belongs to American liberty to separate entirely from the political government the institution which has its object the support and diffusion of religion

— Francis Lieber