Atheism Quote by James Madison

The danger of silent accumulations & encroachments by Ecclesiastical Bodies have not sufficiently engaged attention in the U.S. [...] Besides the danger of a…

— James Madison

Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the…

— James Madison

[If] the nature of ... government [were] a subordination of the civil to the ecclesiastical power, I [would] consider it as desperate for long…

— Thomas Jefferson

A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation where the…

— Joan D. Chittister

An alliance or coalition between Government and religion cannot be too carefully guarded against......Every new and successful example therefore of a PERFECT SEPARATION between…

— James Madison

We have to worry about protecting the Constitution.

— Karen Hughes

“It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the Civil authority…

— James Madison

Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine…

— Thomas Jefferson

We know that the Constitution wisely separates church from state, but remember: the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

— Joe Lieberman

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

Among all the religious persecutions with which almost every page of modern history is stained, no victim ever suffered but for violation of what…

— Richard Mentor Johnson