Breaking Quote by Sam Ervin

I believe in a wall between church and state so high that no one can climb over it. When religion controls government, political liberty…

— Sam Ervin

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

I believe in a wall between church and state so high that no one can climb over it.

— Sam Ervin

Humor makes our heavy burdens light and smoothes the rough spots in our pathways.

— Sam Ervin

A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers,…

— Sam Ervin

Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls…

— Sam Ervin

Religious faith is not a storm cellar to which men and women can flee for refuge from the storms of life. It is instead,…

— Sam Ervin

What James Madison and the other men of his generation had in mind when they wrote the First Amendment was that there should be…

— Sam Ervin

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people.

— Sam Ervin

Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.

— Sam Ervin

Recalling an old magistrate's words to a young attorney, The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella; But chiefly…

— Sam Ervin

When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.

— Sam Ervin