Assuming Quote by Thomas Jefferson

I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This…

— Thomas Jefferson

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

— Jeremy Bentham

No power over the freedom of religion [is] delegated to the United States by the Constitution.

— James Madison

Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to…

— Thomas Jefferson

The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.

— James Buchanan

Government is ordained by God.

— John MacArthur

“...legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared…

— Thomas Jefferson

In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the general government.…

— Thomas Jefferson

Government officials have no right to interfere in ecclesiastical matters in a way that undermines or disregards the God-given authority of pastors and elders.

— John MacArthur

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a…

— Joseph Addison

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

— Amitav Ghosh

We urge all people to recognize that religious freedom requires not trying to use the power of government to force religious ideas on others.

— Ed Buckner