Administration Quote by Roger Williams

Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law.

— Lori Lipman Brown

God ordained and established civil government, but only to serve the common good. A civil government that oppresses its people and acts contrary to…

— Daniel L Dreisbach

Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.

— Joseph Story

If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some…

— Randall Terry

God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state.

— Roger Williams

Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that…

— Anonymous

The people who are good at being civil often lack strong convictions and people who have strong convictions often lack civility.

— Martin E. Marty

I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just…

— John Locke

Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice.

— Alan Ryan

A judge should be evaluated by whether he faithfully upholds his oath to God, not to the people, to the state or to the…

— Clarence Thomas

We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective…

— Angelo Scola

Some civil servants are neither servants nor civil.

— Winston Churchill