Devices Quote by Thomas Jefferson

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

Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.

— William Penn

“More people than ever before look to government as their best chance of securing well-being rather than as their inevitable enemy. Politics as a…

— John Morris Roberts

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

— James Madison

Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine…

— Thomas Jefferson

Government is a true religion: it has its dogmas, its mysteries, its priests. To submit it to the individual discussion is to destroy it;…

— Joseph de Maistre

“. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well as with…

— Jeremy Bentham

The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Religious toleration, to a certain extent, has been won, because people have ceased to consider religion so important as it was once thought to…

— Bertrand Russell

Governments may change, and opinions, and the very appearance of lands themselves, but the slowest thing to change is religion. What has once been…

— Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.

— George Washington

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

— Hugo Black