Brimstone Quote by Saul K. Padover

Separation of church and state in Virginia, instead of weakening Christianity, as the conservatives of the Revolution had feared, really aided it in securing…

— H. J Eckenrode

“The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom written by Thomas Jefferson proclaimed: Be it enacted by General Assembly that no man shall be compelled to…

— David Akadjian

“But in every church there are people who, for reasons which seem sufficient to them, do not approve of their pastor and seek to…

— Robertson Davies

[The Drafters of the Constitution] were intent on avoiding more than 100 years of religious intolerance and persecution in American colonial history and an…

— John M Swomley

When I was running for governor, I was attacked pretty strongly because of my position on the death penalty. But I looked the voters…

— Tim Kaine

The idea of separating church and state by the Founding Fathers of America was freedom from the domination of one form of religion, because…

— John Lennox

“The “large majority of ministers who published sermons during the Revolutionary era justified the war effort by a rationale that was more political than…

— Steven K. Green

“I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute; where no Catholic prelate would tell the President -- should…

— John F. Kennedy