Amendments Quote by Ronald Reagan

As Christians try to force prayer into public schools, they often settle for a 'moment of silence.' But that supposedly innocuous 'moment of silence'…

— Judith Hayes

We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place.

— Ronald Reagan

We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.

— Sam Levenson

Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools, too?

— Red Skelton

I agree with the idea that there is a separation of church and state. That teachers should not be leading prayer - a particular…

— Ken Buck

A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states, that is,…

— Sam Ervin

If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.

— Boyd K. Packer

I’m not in favor of the government mandating a prayer in school because our country was founded on the fact that no particular religious…

— Jimmy Carter

With that in mind and in celebration of National Prayer Day, today I have proposed in the House of Representatives a Constitutional Amendment that…

— Nick Rahall

If Congress wants to get involved in the business of morality by allowing a moment of silence in our schools, I support that. But…

— Ruth Westheimer

“Am I the only one who gets embarrassed when religious leaders in America talk about having prayer in public schools? We don’t have even…

— Jim Cymbala

The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people from religion; that amendment was written to protect religion from government…

— Ronald Reagan