Beneficial Quote by Solon

Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.

— Michael Newdow

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

— William Butler Yeats

If the legislation helps people improve their lives, then that's great because that's the ultimate goal of all of this.

— Charles Koch

I think the government ought to stay out of the religious business.

— Jimmy Carter

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. It is impossible to rightly govern the…

— George Washington

Government sponsorship of religious activity, including prayer services, sacred symbols, religious festivals, and the like, tends to secularize the religious activity rather than make…

— John M Swomley

The Government, being resolved to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, are creating and securing the conditions necessary for a…

— Adolf Hitler

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

— Benjamin Whichcote

Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in…

— Barry Goldwater

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

— John Paul Stevens

We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without…

— Margaret Mead

There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn.…

— Zac Goldsmith