Atheism Quote by Sam Ervin

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

— John Paul Stevens

[I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it is the especial duty…

— Joseph Story

While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.

— George Washington

The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.

— Anton Chekhov

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.

— Michael Newdow

The government to you is what God is to agnostics--only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.

— Amitav Ghosh

Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.

— Michael Newdow

When the power, prestige, and financial support of government is placed behind a particular religious belief, the indirect coercive pressure upon religious minorities to…

— Hugo Black

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

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

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not…

— Robert A. Heinlein