120 Separation Of Church And State Quotes

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Famous Separation Of Church And State Quotes

Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled. — Millard Fillmore

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 with blood for centuries. — James Madison

By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars. — Barry Goldwater

The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic religious institution. — Paul Feyerabend

I believe in the separation of church and planet. — Eric Idle

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. — George Carlin

Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state. — James K. Polk

It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state. — Sean Hannity

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. — James Madison

Religion is removed from the public realm, and the public realm is removed from the affairs of religion. However, this is not neutrality. Implicitly, it supports secularism. — Stephen V Monsma

The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community. — Sandra Day O'Connor

We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives. — Robert Reich

Congress has no power to make any religious establishments. — Roger Sherman

Freedom of religion does not entitle your religion to have a privileged position within the public sphere. — Gad Saad

The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned. — William Rehnquist

Short Separation Of Church And State Quotes

• Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion. — John Adams
• One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship. — Noam Chomsky
• Lord, there's danger in this land, you get witch hunts and wars when church and state hold hands. — Joni Mitchell
• Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law. — Thomas Jefferson
• The election of John F Kennedy will lead to the death of a free church and a free state. — W. A. Criswell
• Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation — Barack Obama
• Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God. — Mahatma Gandhi
• The equal toleration of all religions...is the same as atheism. — Pope Leo XIII
• I don't want to see any religious people in public office because they're working for another boss. — Frank Zappa
• America's commitment to religious freedom and tolerance should not be conditional. — Mark McKinnon

Founding Fathers Separation Of Church And State Quotes

Those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy - the most sublime and benevolent, but most perverted system that ever shone on man - endeavored to crush your well-earned & well-deserved fame. — Thomas Jefferson

The government of the United States of America has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims. — John Adams

Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties. — James Monroe

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. — Thomas Jefferson

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. — Thomas Jefferson

... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance. — George Washington

Question with boldness even the existence of a god. — Thomas Jefferson

I can't tell Black people to fight a war that is Israel's war. What kind of leader will you be, or should I be, to allow these babies Black, white and brown, to fight Israel's war, because Zionists dominate the government of the United States of America and her banking system. — Louis Farrakhan

I never liked the Hierarchy of the Church-an equality in the teacher of Religion, and a dependence on the people, are republican sentiments-but if the Clergy combine, they will have their influence on Government — Rufus King

When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one. — Benjamin Franklin

Separation Between Church And State Quotes

[Disestablishment was] the best thing that ever happened to the state of Connecticut. It cut the churches loose from dependence on state support. It threw them wholly on their own resources and on God. — Lyman Beecher

Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society. — Thomas Jefferson

Here we now have the freedom of all religions, and I hope that never again will we have a repetition of religious bigotry, as we have had in certain periods of our own history. There is no room for that kind of foolishness here. — Harry S. Truman

No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever. — Thomas Jefferson

We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate. — Ronald Reagan

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. — Thomas Jefferson

Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiment in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated. — George Washington

Because we hold it for 'a fundamental and undeniable truth', that religion or 'the duty which we owe to our Creator' and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence. — James Madison

In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practiced, and both by precept and example inculcated on mankind. — Samuel Adams

The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach. — Hugo Black

Church And State Quotes

Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience... without God, there is a coarsening of the society; without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. — Ronald Reagan

A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States. — Edmund Randolph

I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don't hurt anyone else in the process. — Barry Goldwater

Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities. — Harry S. Truman

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. — Benjamin Franklin

An enforced uniformity of religion throughout a nation or civil state, confounds the civil and religious, denies the principles of Christianity and civility, and that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. — Roger Williams

What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth. — Thomas Jefferson

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate. — Ulysses S. Grant

...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind. — Thomas Paine

Christmas: It's the only religious holiday that's also a federal holiday. That way, Christians can go to their services, and everyone else can sit at home and reflect on the true meaning of the separation of church and state. — Samantha Bee

Religion And Government Quotes

The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext infringed. — James Madison

To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas. — Brock Chisholm

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people... it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Quincy Adams

Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government. — Leon Trotsky

Religion and faith are very personal matters. So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the Constitution of India. — Narendra Modi

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them. — B. R. Babasaheb Ambedkar

The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments. — Benjamin Rush

No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. — Noah Webster

I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man. — Thomas Jefferson

Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history. — James Madison

Separation Of Powers Quotes

What is most important of this grand experiment, the United States? Not the election of the first president but the election of its second president. The peaceful transition of power is what will separate this country from every other country in the world. — George Washington

No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people. — Thomas Paine

The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity. — Ram Dass

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven. — Edward De Bono

According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves. — Plato

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go. — Baron de Montesquieu

One of the many ways the administrative state is unconstitutional: it destroys separation of powers. — Vivek Ramaswamy

Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower of Babel" by which men sought to scale the highest heavens. Today computers hold out the promise of a means of instant tr — Marshall McLuhan

Which of the two powers, Love or Music, can elevate man to the sublimest heights? ... It is a problem, and yet it seems to me that this is the answer: 'Love can give no idea of music; music can give an idea of love.' ... Why separate them? They are two wings of the soul. — Hector Berlioz

What separates those who go under and those who rise above adversity is the strength of their will and their hunger for power. — 50 Cent

People Writing About Separation Of Church And State

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Millard Fillmore	16	605
Barry Goldwater quotes on extremism	116	1443
Paul Feyerabend quotes on ethics, leadership and freedom	62	404
Eric Idle quotes on life, love and john cleese	95	197
George Carlin quotes on humanity, life and death	932	11627

More Separation Of Church And State Quotes

I am tolerant of all creeds. Yet if any sect suffered itself to be used for political objects I would meet it by political opposition. In my view church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact. Religion and politics should not be mingled. — Millard Fillmore

The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in any state or in the nation, should be exempt from equal taxation; for if you exempt the property of any church organization, to that extent you impose a tax upon the whole community. — James A. Garfield

Whatever one's religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution and all its parts - including the First Amendment and the strict separation of church and state. — John F. Kennedy

I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much rather go to hell - than go to a homophobic heaven. — Desmond Tutu

The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind. — Thomas Paine

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God — Thomas Jefferson

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state. — James Madison

America wasn't founded as a theocracy. America was founded by people trying to escape theocracies. Never in history have we had a Christian theocracy where it wasn't bloody and barbaric. That's why our Constitution wisely put in a separation of church and state. — Gregory A. Boyd

The separation of church and state has been a cornerstone of American democracy for over two hundred years. Getting rid of it was long overdue. — Andy Borowitz

There is no such thing as separation of church and state. It is merely a figment of the imagination of infidels. — W. A. Criswell

Separation of the Church and State is like a railroad track. It cannot be close to one another, neither can it be distant, because there will be derailment. We (Church) should cooperate with the government and the government should cooperate with us because we're serving the same people. — Jaime Sin

[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. — James Madison

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