American history Quote by Eric Foner

To a large extent, the American church has become merged with the world. It has adopted so many of the world's ideals and standards…

— Billy Graham

I think very few people realize how much the separation of church and state has to do with the fact that Americans are not…

— Susan Jacoby

The idea of America's religious groups fighting over the limited public money to be made available takes us down the road towards the kind…

— David Saperstein

There's a reason we seperate Church and State. The reason for the richness and the diversity of religion in this nation is because of…

— Phil Donahue

We don't have a lot of churches in America; we have a lot of really nice brick buildings on finely manicured lawns! Just because…

— Paul Washer

By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world…

— Barry Goldwater

Everyone in the United States is so intense about maintaining a separation between Church and State when the real concern should be about keeping…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life. They no…

— Sean O'Casey

US is a very religious country. Separation of church and state is part of our credo, but that it is hard to understand since…

— Madeleine Albright

And another thing is that I think as a church whenever we become politically driven, we alienate at least 50 percent of the people…

— T. D. Jakes

I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state are absolute.

— Rick Santorum

The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.

— Erwin McManus