Government Quote by Leon Trotsky

Wherever there is a religious regime, over there there is ignorance, misery and absurdity! No religious state can ever elevate its own people! Sooner…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.

— Anonymous

Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.

— William Penn

I think those governments who resent religion, they're afraid of religion because religion may be in their eyes, in their views be seen as…

— Elie Wiesel

The mixing of government and religion can be a threat to free government, even if no one is forced to participate.... When the government…

— Harry A. Blackmun

Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.

— Michael Newdow

While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.

— George Washington

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government.

— Mitt Romney

As a result, socialism and communism, in particular, use government to suppress religion to such a degree as to leave the one true God…

— Tony Evans

Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around.

— Gore Vidal

All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.

— Baron d'Holbach

Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.

— John Adams