Church and state Quote by Kenneth Evans

“I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both…

— George Carlin

“When Church and State are separate, the effects are happy, and they do not at all interfere with each other; but where they have…

— Isaac Backus

“I believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the church did in its worst period.…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Church and State, will, of course, go on for ever, in spite of the fact that it is impossible for them to mingle, and…

— Anton Chekhov

“A church was only as good or bad as the philosophy that emanated from the pulpit.”

— Erika Johansen

“It is important to note that the Great Reversal preceded the rise of the welfare state in America. Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty did…

— Steve Corbett

Anytime you hear the concept of the separation of church and state being talked about these days, it is never in regard to maintaining…

— D. James Kennedy

“There’s no stronger bulwark of sound conservatism than the evangelical church, and no better place to make friends who’ll help you to gain your…

— Sinclair Lewis

“They would brilliantly co-opt the conservatives and the Christian churches, and when they had the power to do so, they would turn on them…

— Eric Metaxas

The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“evangelicals overestimate our size and influence as a movement.”

— John S. Dickerson

Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between Church and State, and that in my action as President of the United States…

— James K. Polk