Atheism Quote by Millard Fillmore

“A sect, incidentally, is a religion with no political power.”

— Thomas Wolfe

Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled.

— Millard Fillmore

I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was…

— Wilfrid Laurier

The arbitrary division between church and state... is used, as an easily identifiable rallying point, to subdue the opinions of that vast body of…

— Francis Schaeffer

The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has gone so far in adopting…

— Anonymous

There must be a realm of truth beyond political competence, that's why there must be a separation of churches, but if religion is bad…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

And another thing is that I think as a church whenever we become politically driven, we alienate at least 50 percent of the people…

— T. D. Jakes

I have ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect.

— James Madison

But the consequences of the whole-hearted and uncritical embrace of politics by Christians has been, IN EFFECT, to reduce Christian faith to a political…

— James Davison Hunter

The church is not primarily a political organisation. We're a religious organisation. There's a much greater opportunity.

— George Pell

“We must have a religion — it goes without saying — but my idea is, to have it cut up into forty free sects,…

— Mark Twain

“My reading of American religious history is that religion always functions best from the margins of society and not in the councils of power.…

— Randall Balmer