Aids Quote by Hugo Black

The "establishment of religion" clause of the First Amendment means at least this: Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a…

— Hugo Black

“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

That Amendment requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not require the…

— Hugo Black

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

Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls…

— Sam Ervin

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for…

— Thomas Jefferson

The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility…

— Warren E. Burger

Government...may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or…

— Abe Fortas

The constitutional prohibition against laws respecting an establishment of religion must at least mean that in this country it is no part of the…

— Hugo Black

“Religious belief does not do away with either natural or human law from which sovereignty is derived.”

— Timothy Brook

“There is not, there cannot be, a State without religion. Take the freest States in the world—the United States of America or the Swiss…

— Mikhail Bakunin

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from…

— Linda Chavez