Best Church And State Quotes

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

Church and state are, and must remain, separate.

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 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.

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.

I would suggest the taxation of all property equally whether church or corporation.

We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.

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

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.

There’s a reason we seperate Church and State. The reason for the richness and the diversity of religion in this nation is because of the seperation of Church and State, and there are people out there who can’t wait to make this nation a nation of one religion… THEIR religion.

Each of us has the choice to attend the church we want to, or none at all. Separation of church and state allows for religions to have their own set of rules as to whom they will accept and who they won’t, and the practices they support and the ones they don’t. They will continue to be able to do so.

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

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.

Earlier in my political career, I had the opportunity to read the speech, and I almost threw up. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/post/santorum-says-he-almost-threw-up-after-reading-jfk-speech-on-separation-of-church-and-state/2012/02/26/gIQA91hubR_blog.html)

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.

Separation of church and state is the big club pulled out to beat back the Christians .

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

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.

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.

The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

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

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.

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.

There is no relationship here between Church and State. Religious liberty has its unalterable place, along with civil and human liberty, in the very foundation of the Republic. I hold it [religious intolerance] to be a menace to the very liberties which we boast and cherish.

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

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

I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used for the purpose of advancing any particular creed; and therefore that the public schools shall be nonsectarian and no public moneys appropriated for sectarian schools.

Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. Erecting the ‘wall of separation between church and state,’ therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society.

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

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.

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

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

Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?

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