Dies Quote by Sam Ervin

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

— Walter Jon Williams

If you elect a religious party into power, you no longer have a democracy.

— Maysoon Zayid

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

— James Madison

Freedom is won by relegating religion to a purely private sphere remote from the body politic. In fact, the establishment of a free society…

— William Anthony Donohue

Democracy and religion stand or fall together. Where democracy has been destroyed, religion has been doomed. Where religion has been trampled down, democracy has…

— Herbert H. Lehman

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.

— Hugo Black

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect…

— Robert H. Jackson

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.

— Robert Jackson

Religious liberty is about freedom of action in matters of religion generally, and the scope of that liberty is directly correlated to the civil…

— Clarence Thomas

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

It belongs to American liberty to separate entirely from the political government the institution which has its object the support and diffusion of religion

— Francis Lieber

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

— Theodore White