Chaplains Quote by James Madison

The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

— Lamar S. Smith

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

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

The Founders intended only to prevent the establishment of a single national denomination, not to restrain public religious expressions.

— David Barton

The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country.

— William Rainey Harper

Reading their letters and the First Amendment of the US Constitution, I infer that this nation's founders noted that religions have been at the…

— Bill Nye

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

In our Constitution, our bedrock principle, you know - indeed, what the nation was founded on - is an idea of freedom of religion:…

— Neal Katyal

The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of…

— Mike Pence

As you know, the separation of church and state is not subject to discussion or alteration. Under our Constitution no church or religion can…

— Richard M. Nixon

The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

— Michael Newdow