Christian Quote by David Barton

The Founding Fathers believed devoutly that there was a God and that the unalienable rights of man were rooted - not in the state,…

— Tom C. Clark

[The founding fathers] believed that freedom of expression included religious views and beliefs, so long as the government did not force people to worship…

— John Cornyn

The Founders intended only to prevent the establishment of a single national denomination, not to restrain public religious expressions.

— David Barton

The Founders never intended to separate Christianity from government, only to keep a single denomination from running the nation.

— David Barton

I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.

— Jesse Ventura

When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a wall of…

— Ronald Reagan

The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of…

— Ron Paul

Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right…

— Norman Cousins

The Founders believed that pluralism survived only within the concept of religious liberty espoused by American Christianity.

— David Barton

There are some who invoke separation of church and state - to try to get the government out of the business of morality -…

— Dinesh D'Souza

Reading their letters and the First Amendment of the US Constitution, I infer that this nation's founders noted that religions have been at the…

— Bill Nye

The Founders wanted to protect the church from an encroaching state, not the other way around.

— Mike Johnson