Favors Quote by George W. Bush

I think the court will determine that the Faith-Based Initiative that the White House has instituted in the last five years is constitutional, in…

— Anonymous

I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

While we have a Constitution that is very strong in the sense that we are not gonna have a religion that's sanctioned by the…

— Ken Buck

“The American Constitution is a practical secular covenant, drawn up by men who (with few exceptions) believed in a sacred Covenant, designed to restrain…

— Russell Kirk

“Government in our democracy, state and national, must be neutral in matters of religious theory, doctrine, and practice. It may not be hostile to…

— Abe Fortas

I believe strongly in the Constitutional principle of separating church and state. Our founders were right in fearing that religious freedom would be threatened…

— Sargent Shriver

“...legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared…

— Thomas Jefferson

[G]et two-thirds of the states to alter the Constitution; come out with their national religion, and then let the people get their throats ready.

— Anne Royall

The Constitution treats religious belief as uniquely special, uniquely central to the dignity of the human person, and, for that reason, beyond the power…

— Josh Hawley

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

— John Adams

A move to decide citizenship on the basis of religion amounts to rejecting the Constitution.

— Pinarayi Vijayan