Atheism Quote by Richard Mentor Johnson

Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in…

— Barry Goldwater

If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects…

— William Wilberforce

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

— John Paul Stevens

Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it.

— Christopher Hitchens

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

— James Madison

Economic and military power can be developed under the spur of laws and appropriations. But moral power does not derive from any act of…

— John Foster Dulles

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

— Bill Gates

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

Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every…

— Anonymous

And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be…

— Christopher Dawson

The religious habits of the Americans form not only the basis of their private and public morals, but have become so thoroughly interwoven with…

— Francis Grund

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

— Steven Weinberg