Education Quote by Matilda Joslyn Gage

“...legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared…

— Thomas Jefferson

“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

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

“We have a wonderful Church organization, but the one place where we may have greater influence than any other is in the homes in…

— George Albert Smith

[T]he bill exceeds the rightful authority to which governments are limited by the essential distinction between civil and religious functions, and violates in particular…

— James Madison

As the church watches from the sidelines, the ungodly elect atheists and homosexuals to school boards and legislatures to enact policies and laws that…

— Robert Simonds

Banning prayer in school in effect made God unconstitutional.

— Rush Limbaugh

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

[The notion of separating church and state with such policies as disallowing prayer in public schools] is a deception from Satan.

— Joyce Meyer

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

— John Paul Stevens

“I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute; where no Catholic prelate would tell the President -- should…

— John F. Kennedy

“I love my country. Holy shit, do I love America. In many ways, it is the glorious result of some very open-minded thinking on…

— Nick Offerman