Father Quote by Jesse Ventura

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

Religion, which never intervenes directly in the government of American society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions

— Alexis de Tocqueville

It is evident from their writings that the Founding Fathers would never have tolerated the separation that we have embraced today. They knew that…

— David Barton

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 notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of…

— Ron Paul

I believe strongly in the Constitutional principle of separating church and state. Our founders were right in fearing that religious freedom would be threatened…

— Sargent Shriver

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

— John Adams

“From many things that Adams and his contemporaries wrote, it is clear that they did not use the word "religion" to exclude Christian ideas…

— Gary DeMar

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

The Constitution has never treated religion as merely another private opinion that government can order people to keep to themselves.

— Josh Hawley

[The founding fathers] believed that freedom of expression included religious views and beliefs, so long as the government did not force people to worship…

— John Cornyn

I think the government ought to stay out of the religious business.

— Jimmy Carter