Church And State Quotes

In the case Stone v. Graham, the Supreme Court ruled that - under 'separation of church and state' - it was unconstitutional for a student in school to even see a copy of the Ten Commandments.

I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an Atheist. We have separation of church and state in the United States of America.

The liberal understanding of 'the separation of church and state' means that as the area of politics expands, the area of private freedom - religious and otherwise - shrinks.

By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion... .

I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

The contemporary quarrel over church and state is not really about whether a wall of separation of church and state should exist or not... The real question is what does 'separation' mean?

I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.

Anybody that believes in separation of church and state needs to leave right now.

... demanding a separation between church and state isn't enough; the churches' basic doctrines must be changed, with homophobia written out forever.

One faith, one law and one standard of justice did not mean democracy. The heresy of democracy has since then worked havoc in church and state . . . Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies.

I talk about a Christianity that is enlightened enough to separate spirituality from the rest of life. Not just church and state, but knowledge and church.

I fully understand it's important to maintain the separation of church and state. We don't want the state to become the church, nor do we want the church to become the state.

The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.

The union of Church and State is not to make the Church political, but the State religious.

the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government.

When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong.

Alongside my own deep personal faith, I am a follower, as well, of our civic religion. I am a big believer in the separation of church and state.

You're telling me that the separation of church and state is found in the First Amendment?

Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power.

If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church

The union of church and state put the church under a political control... The church was thoroughly subordinated to the state.

Some people have a fear of rejecting all the security that comes with family, church and state. They become fundamentalists.

The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.

Thomas Jefferson declared, stating that he was speaking on behalf of the other founding fathers, ...(that) we should build a wall between the church and state.

News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.

I'm not sure if the shame/guilt distinction resonates for me. I just know that shame is a debilitating emotion that is perpetuated by Church and State.

I don't know that the Libertarian Party has an official position on the separation of church and state.

There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that sanctifies the separation of church and state.

Religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.

The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious vision or with the religious prophet.

Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each in his own way, or to stand guard for each other.

I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.

Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.

I think it's very important for people who are serving (in office) to make sure there's a separation of church and state.

There's a way to accomplish the separation of church and state and at the same time accomplish the social objective of having America become a hopeful place and loving place.

I appreciate that question because I, in the state of Texas, had heard a lot of discussion about a faith-based initiative eroding the important bridge between church and state.

The problem is efforts by liberals to establish a wall between religion and society, in the guise of maintaining the wall between church and state.

Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.

[The notion of separating church and state with such policies as disallowing prayer in public schools] is a deception from Satan.

The Supreme Court's 1947 decision which introduced the wall of separation between church and state 'has fueled a movement to sterilize anything in American public life from religion.'

The ACLU sees the separation of church and state as so absolute that not a single religious word must be allowed to pass a schoolhouse door.

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries.]

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for cent