Atheism Quote by James Buchanan

No power over the freedom of religion [is] delegated to the United States by the Constitution.

— James Madison

Congress has no power to make any religious establishments.

— Roger Sherman

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

— Jeremy Bentham

The government of the United States is not in any sense founded upon the Christian religion.

— John Adams

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

The government of the United States of America has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims.

— John Adams

A just government has no need for the clergy or the church.

— James Madison

The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.

— Anonymous

Religion cannot be the agenda of any government.

— Mamata Banerjee

Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government.

— Thomas Jefferson

Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.

— Richard Mentor Johnson

No religion can be built on force.

— George Sand