America Quote by Daryl C. Cornett

“No part of the regular school day was set aside for religious worship…. Jefferson did not permit the room belonging to the university to…

— Leonard W. Levy

“I agree with yours of the 22d that a professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution . but we cannot always…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Deists of Jefferson’s generation fought tax support for religious institutions at a time when the only influential American religious sects were Protestant. Their nineteenth-century…

— Susan Jacoby

“The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom written by Thomas Jefferson proclaimed: Be it enacted by General Assembly that no man shall be compelled to…

— David Akadjian

Thomas Jefferson basically secularized Jesus.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the…

— Thomas Jefferson

“On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling,…

— George Washington

“A religiously ambiguous Thomas Jefferson is not useful to the Christian right.”

— Matt McCook

The traditional Jeffersonian principle of religious freedom was so broadly democratic that it included the right to have no religion at all - it…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Thomas Jefferson High School [..] His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of the world’s greatest theoreticians on…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I'm a product of a Notre Dame education; those professors taught me a lot about how you separate the city of God from the…

— Bruce Babbitt

Many of these failures can be laid at the feet of the awful state of American higher education, and especially the way in which…

— Paul Kengor