Failure Quote by Jon Meacham

A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states, that is,…

— Sam Ervin

Restoring prayer ... will scarcely at this date solve the grievous public school problem. Public schools are expensive and massive centers for cultural and…

— Murray Rothbard

We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place.

— Ronald Reagan

In 1962, the Supreme Court banned organized prayer from public schools. Since then, federal, state, and local courts and officials, including public school administrators,…

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

Banning prayer in school in effect made God unconstitutional.

— Rush Limbaugh

The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people from religion; that amendment was written to protect religion from government…

— Ronald Reagan

I’m not in favor of the government mandating a prayer in school because our country was founded on the fact that no particular religious…

— Jimmy Carter

I sincerely believe that the collective efforts of many secularists during the past generation, resulting in the expulsion from our schools and from the…

— Jerry Falwell

We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.

— Sam Levenson

Once involved in the school-prayer fight, I rapidly became aware of, and appalled by, the political and economic power of the Church in America…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

With that in mind and in celebration of National Prayer Day, today I have proposed in the House of Representatives a Constitutional Amendment that…

— Nick Rahall

In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I…

— Adam Hamilton