Countenance Quote by Mitt Romney

The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of…

— Ron Paul

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.

— Ginny Brown-Waite

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for…

— Thomas Jefferson

There are some who invoke separation of church and state - to try to get the government out of the business of morality -…

— Dinesh D'Souza

Religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Reading their letters and the First Amendment of the US Constitution, I infer that this nation's founders noted that religions have been at the…

— Bill Nye

I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.

— Jesse Ventura

“The phrase ‘separation of church and state,’ which appears in no founding document (only in a letter written by Thomas Jefferson), means that America…

— Dennis Prager

The state, frankly, could care less. Historically, the state has been able to use any religious point of view for its own ends. .…

— Peter McWilliams

The Founding Fathers believed that faith in God was the key to our being a good people and America's becoming a great nation.

— Ronald Reagan

“The American tradition of separation of church and state grew directly from the freethinking of the Founders. After political independence, they considered independence of…

— Joshua Wolf Shenk

The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.

— Anonymous