Amendments Quote by Hugo Black

The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the…

— Hugo Black

The First Amendment has created a wall of separation between the church and the State. But that wall is one directional. It is to…

— Thomas Jefferson

I believe in a wall between church and state so high that no one can climb over it. When religion controls government, political liberty…

— Sam Ervin

You're telling me that the separation of church and state is found in the First Amendment?

— Christine O'Donnell

That wall is a one directional wall. It keeps the government from running the church but it makes sure that Christian principles will always…

— David Barton

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

Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.

— Thomas Jefferson

The founding fathers of the U.S. were right when they erected that wall between church and state.

— Jim Starlin

The First Amendment exists to protect our religious liberty--to ensure that all Americans are able to seek out worship God with all our hearts,…

— Ted Cruz

The problem is efforts by liberals to establish a wall between religion and society, in the guise of maintaining the wall between church and…

— Irving Kristol

The First Amendment, however, does not say that in every and all respects there shall be a separation of Church and State. Rathe, it…

— William O. Douglas

Anytime you hear the concept of the separation of church and state being talked about these days, it is never in regard to maintaining…

— D. James Kennedy