Authority Quote by Mitt Romney

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this…

— Mitt Romney

The problem with religious doctrine, as with politics, because of its ability to give people authority, it has a tendency to attract people that…

— Tobias Forge

It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the same reason.

— Robert Morrison MacIver

“government shouldn’t be in the business of imposing someone else’s dubious religious code on you.”

— Jaclyn Friedman

Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

It goes beyond mere 'acknowledgment' of religion because its sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise…

— Barbara Brandriff Crabb

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

Government sponsorship of religious activity, including prayer services, sacred symbols, religious festivals, and the like, tends to secularize the religious activity rather than make…

— John M Swomley

The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions.... We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping the affairs…

— Barry Goldwater

Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.

— Sam Ervin

Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.

— Leon Trotsky

“Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower