Code Quote by Robert Morrison MacIver

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

— Jaclyn Friedman

I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.

— Vera Rubin

And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief…

— Clarence Thomas

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a…

— Joseph Addison

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

Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments.

— Gouverneur Morris

Morality is the object of government.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.

— Michael Newdow

A man should have a right to be religious if he wants to. The government should not be involved in those decisions.

— Andy Garcia

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government.

— Mitt Romney

While anyone who practices a religion has the right to their own religious truths, it doesn't give them the right to violate the welfare…

— Marianne Thieme

I think the government ought to stay out of the religious business.

— Jimmy Carter