Church And State Quotes

Church And State Quote of the day

Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state.

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

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

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.

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.

Lord, there's danger in this land, you get witch hunts and wars when church and state hold hands.

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.

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.

Both church and state claiming to be of divine origin have assumed divine right of man over woman; while church and state have thought for man, man has assumed the right to think for woman.

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

The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any.

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

Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning.

No union exists between church and state, and perfect freedom of opinion is guaranteed to all sects and creeds.

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.

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.

I believe in a wall between church and state so high that no one can climb over it.

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

If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors."

Separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.

I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination.

This crusade to separate church and state is only one expression of my raison d'être. I'm an atheist, but I'm also an anarchist, and a feminist, and an integrationist.

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.

I wish, in America, (that) we were as concerned about separation from church and sin as we are about separation between church and state. Church and sin-- it's a monstrous problem.

I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is that there will not be a government church.

A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that god prefers some

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.

What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the need to oppose them?

Some people prefer not to commingle the functional, lambda-calculus part of a language with the parts that do side effects. It seems they believe in the separation of Church and state.

The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.

Now who can hear Christ declare, that his kingdom is, not of this world, and yet believe that this blending of church and state together can be pleasing to him?

Separation of Church and State is the perineum of America and the episiotomy didn't hold.

The current version of... separation of church and state says you can be salt, and you can be light, but only inside the four walls of the church.

Church and state are, and must remain, separate.

I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute.

I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.

There should be absolutely no 'Separation of Church and State' in America.

Declare church and state forever separate and distinct; but each free within their proper spheres.

It is not a question of religion, or of creed, or of party; it is a question of declaring and maintaining the great American principle of eternal separation between Church and State.

I believe in the separation of church and state and would not use my authority to violate this principle in any way.

The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.

We believe in separation of church and state, that there should be no unwarranted influence on the church or religion by the state, and vice versa.

The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.

The divorce between church and state should be absolute.

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.

For me, it's church and state, not church in state, and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing that line.

When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.

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

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.