Church Quote by Jim Starlin

Thomas Jefferson declared, stating that he was speaking on behalf of the other founding fathers, ...(that) we should build a wall between the church…

— Jimmy Carter

That wall is a one directional wall. It keeps the government from running the church but it makes sure that Christian principles will always…

— David Barton

The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the…

— Hugo Black

The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the…

— Hugo Black

The First Amendment has created a wall of separation between the church and the State. But that wall is one directional. It is to…

— Thomas Jefferson

The Founders wanted to protect the church from an encroaching state, not the other way around.

— Mike Johnson

The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.

— William Rehnquist

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

The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide…

— William Rehnquist

“The American tradition of separation of church and state grew directly from the freethinking of the Founders. After political independence, they considered independence of…

— Joshua Wolf Shenk

That wall, embodied in the First Amendment, is perhaps America's most important contribution to political progress on this planet.

— Lowell P. Weicker, Jr