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This Campaign will provide a voice for Americans who believe in both a free church and a free state....
IRA GLASSER For the purpose of the state and the church, and the principle of separating the two with a decent d...
BARRY LYNN![]()
I have never met a happy atheist. I believe in separation of church and state, but I think we have g...
DIXIE CARTER![]()
The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares rel...
BEN SHAPIRO![]()
Religious-liberty protections are one way of achieving civil peace even amid disagreement. The Unite...
EDWIN MEESE![]()
History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.
RICK WARREN The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has ...
JOHN C. DANFORTH![]()
The phrase ‘separation of church and state,’ which appears in no founding document (only in a le...
DENNIS PRAGER![]()
Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ough...
JAMES MADISON![]()
Let me speak plainly: The United States of America is and must remain a nation of openness to people...
RONALD REAGAN We're fighting for the 1st Amendment, the separation of church and state, and the integrity of schoo...
ERIC ROTHSCHILD![]()
It’s pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy Pride.
HARUKI MURAKAMI![]()
Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficul...
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR![]()
I believe we can, and must, strike a balance between our shared American values of religious liberty...
GARY JOHNSON![]()
But our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The ri...
THOMAS JEFFERSON![]()
Where the preamble declares that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our rel...
THOMAS JEFFERSON All religious politics are restricted to support for the Russian Orthodox Church as opposed to other...
LYUDMILA ALEXEYEVA![]()
Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the churc...
FRANCIS CHAN The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to sep...
ADAM COHEN![]()
Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or posse...
JOHN LOCKE The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some re...
ROSIE O'DONNELL Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person...
ALCEE HASTINGS This is just one step in the right direction in the fight for religious liberty.
JARED LELAND I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of reli...
ADAM RICKITT We are praying that the hurricane dissipates or that it weakens. This state can barely stand what ha...
KATHLEEN BLANCO![]()
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
G. K. CHESTERTON![]()
The liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil,
political, and religious rights of an E...
JUNIUS![]()
The liberty of the press is the Palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an En...
JUNIUS![]()
The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Eng...
JUNIUS![]()
Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must...
RONALD REAGAN![]()
Every new & successful example therefore of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and c...
JAMES MADISON![]()
For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other y...
JOHN F. KENNEDY![]()
They knew that to put God in the constitution was to put man out. They knew that the recognition of ...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL![]()
If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.
RONALD REAGAN![]()
All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to fre...
THOMAS JEFFERSON![]()
America was founded to be a beacon of liberty, particularly religious liberty. The framers of our Co...
EDWIN MEESE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES These harmful cuts to vital programs are out of line with the values of working Americans and the sp...
AMAYA SMITH It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.
SEAN HANNITY![]()
One of the outstanding achievements of the new constructional technique has been the abolition of th...
WALTER GROPIUS And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin: but he slipped away out of Saul's ...
BIBLE This is a watershed decision (that) reaffirms the liberty, dignity and privacy Americans cherish at ...
BARBARA COOMBS LEE![]()
It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spr...
JOHN C. CALHOUN![]()
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
THOMAS PAINE When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion it conveys a message of exclusion t...
HARRY A. BLACKMUN![]()
The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' nam...
E.L. DOCTOROW![]()
I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic pre...
JOHN F. KENNEDY We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being. . . . We find no such Const...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS At a time when we see around the world the violent consequences of the assumptions of religious auth...
RICHARD DURBIN Do you know, where does this phrase "separation of Church and State" come from? It was not in Jeffer...
GLEN URQUHART Representative government, the supremacy of parliament, the independence of the judiciary, separatio...
GEOFFREY ROBERTSON My fellow Americans, from the battlefield to the capitals of our allies and friends and partners, th...
JOHN R. ALLEN![]()
Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious...
LORD ACTON In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of t...
CLAUDIO HUMMES![]()
The distinguishing part of our Constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate seems...
EDMUND BURKE So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for ...
GARY NORTH![]()
Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the...
JUNIUS![]()
Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
MARTIN LUTHER It belongs to American liberty to separate entirely from the political government the institution wh...
FRANCIS LIEBER![]()
We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-ric...
RAND PAUL For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it bec...
MIKE MCCURRY![]()
What I am for is protecting, with the highest standards in our courts, the religious liberty of Hoos...
MIKE PENCE That is because Allah is the Protector of those who believe, and because the unbelievers shall have ...
QURAN![]()
Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic li...
EMMA GOLDMAN![]()
Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious
liberty, laid, without knowing it, th...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England ...
PAUL HARRIS![]()
Americans know something without a name is undermining the nation, turning the mind mushy when it co...
CHARLTON HESTON![]()
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is i...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE The next time believers tell you that 'separation of church and state' does not appear in our foundi...
DAN BARKER The next time believers tell you that 'separation of church and state' does not appear in our foundi...
DAN BARKER![]()
But the greatest injury of the 'wall' notion is its mischievous diversion of judges from the actual ...
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST We are totally convinced that this is vital to our state.
HELENE NELSON The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and othe...
CHRIS CHOCOLA Liberals and conservatives tend to view the economy in purely materialistic terms. They make growth,...
GREG FORSTER There should be absolutely no "Separation of Church and State" in America
DAVID BARTON State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.
ADAM COHEN![]()
Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.
TED CRUZ![]()
Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER This is a nation of inconsistencies. The Puritans fleeing from oppression became oppressors. We foug...
MARY LEASE It is inappropriate for the state to be enlisted into internal religious debates.
LAURA EVERETT![]()
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the ...
EMMA GOLDMAN Patriotic Americans should observe a day of prayer and thanksgiving for this stunning and historic r...
GARY GLENN![]()
The loathsome combination of Church and State
THOMAS JEFFERSON![]()
While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
CHARLES EVANS HUGHES![]()
While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty
CHARLES EVANS HUGHES Of all the weapons vital for a speedy victory, the most vital is information.
JOHN MAN If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women...
JAMES TALENT These results reflect the general state of uncertainty that is prevalent in today's economy. Employe...
DENNIS JACOBE If the federal government believes free contraception is vital, then surely it can find another way ...
LUTHER STRANGE![]()
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretche...
EMMA LAZARUS The church is the center of the black community, ... The church provides day care, education and hou...
ADAM HUNTER America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning ...
, TO THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS, COLUMBUS, OHIO In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all sel...
ARTHUR KEITH![]()
Like other universities do, Liberty hosts a number of events for outside organizations, businesses, ...
JERRY FALWELL, JR. The Dutch Reformed Church was the state church of the apartheid regime and a fervent supporter of ap...
DAUGLAS DAUGLAS![]()
People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A stat...
JON HUNTSMAN, JR.![]()
All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
D. H. LAWRENCE![]()
there is found a third level of religious experience, even if it is seldom found in a pure form. I w...
ALBERT EINSTEIN![]()
Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and author...
MITT ROMNEY![]()
The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religi...
RUSH LIMBAUGH
IRA GLASSER For the purpose of the state and the church, and the principle of separating the two with a decent d...
BARRY LYNN
I have never met a happy atheist. I believe in separation of church and state, but I think we have g... DIXIE CARTER
The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares rel... BEN SHAPIRO
Religious-liberty protections are one way of achieving civil peace even amid disagreement. The Unite... EDWIN MEESE
History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it. RICK WARREN The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has ...
JOHN C. DANFORTH
The phrase ‘separation of church and state,’ which appears in no founding document (only in a le... DENNIS PRAGER
Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ough... JAMES MADISON
Let me speak plainly: The United States of America is and must remain a nation of openness to people... RONALD REAGAN We're fighting for the 1st Amendment, the separation of church and state, and the integrity of schoo...
ERIC ROTHSCHILD
It’s pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy Pride. HARUKI MURAKAMI
Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficul... SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR
I believe we can, and must, strike a balance between our shared American values of religious liberty... GARY JOHNSON
But our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The ri... THOMAS JEFFERSON
Where the preamble declares that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our rel... THOMAS JEFFERSON All religious politics are restricted to support for the Russian Orthodox Church as opposed to other...
LYUDMILA ALEXEYEVA
Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the churc... FRANCIS CHAN The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to sep...
ADAM COHEN
Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or posse... JOHN LOCKE The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some re...
ROSIE O'DONNELL Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person...
ALCEE HASTINGS This is just one step in the right direction in the fight for religious liberty.
JARED LELAND I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of reli...
ADAM RICKITT We are praying that the hurricane dissipates or that it weakens. This state can barely stand what ha...
KATHLEEN BLANCO
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. G. K. CHESTERTON
The liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil,
political, and religious rights of an E... JUNIUS
The liberty of the press is the Palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an En... JUNIUS
The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Eng... JUNIUS
Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must... RONALD REAGAN
Every new & successful example therefore of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and c... JAMES MADISON
For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other y... JOHN F. KENNEDY
They knew that to put God in the constitution was to put man out. They knew that the recognition of ... ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under. RONALD REAGAN
All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to fre... THOMAS JEFFERSON
America was founded to be a beacon of liberty, particularly religious liberty. The framers of our Co... EDWIN MEESE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES These harmful cuts to vital programs are out of line with the values of working Americans and the sp...
AMAYA SMITH It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.
SEAN HANNITY
One of the outstanding achievements of the new constructional technique has been the abolition of th... WALTER GROPIUS And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin: but he slipped away out of Saul's ...
BIBLE This is a watershed decision (that) reaffirms the liberty, dignity and privacy Americans cherish at ...
BARBARA COOMBS LEE
It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spr... JOHN C. CALHOUN
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests. THOMAS PAINE When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion it conveys a message of exclusion t...
HARRY A. BLACKMUN
The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' nam... E.L. DOCTOROW
I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic pre... JOHN F. KENNEDY We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being. . . . We find no such Const...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS At a time when we see around the world the violent consequences of the assumptions of religious auth...
RICHARD DURBIN Do you know, where does this phrase "separation of Church and State" come from? It was not in Jeffer...
GLEN URQUHART Representative government, the supremacy of parliament, the independence of the judiciary, separatio...
GEOFFREY ROBERTSON My fellow Americans, from the battlefield to the capitals of our allies and friends and partners, th...
JOHN R. ALLEN
Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious... LORD ACTON In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of t...
CLAUDIO HUMMES
The distinguishing part of our Constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate seems... EDMUND BURKE So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for ...
GARY NORTH
Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the... JUNIUS
Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon. MARTIN LUTHER It belongs to American liberty to separate entirely from the political government the institution wh...
FRANCIS LIEBER
We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-ric... RAND PAUL For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it bec...
MIKE MCCURRY
What I am for is protecting, with the highest standards in our courts, the religious liberty of Hoos... MIKE PENCE That is because Allah is the Protector of those who believe, and because the unbelievers shall have ...
QURAN
Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic li... EMMA GOLDMAN
Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious
liberty, laid, without knowing it, th... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England ...
PAUL HARRIS
Americans know something without a name is undermining the nation, turning the mind mushy when it co... CHARLTON HESTON
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is i... ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE The next time believers tell you that 'separation of church and state' does not appear in our foundi...
DAN BARKER The next time believers tell you that 'separation of church and state' does not appear in our foundi...
DAN BARKER
But the greatest injury of the 'wall' notion is its mischievous diversion of judges from the actual ... WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST We are totally convinced that this is vital to our state.
HELENE NELSON The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and othe...
CHRIS CHOCOLA Liberals and conservatives tend to view the economy in purely materialistic terms. They make growth,...
GREG FORSTER There should be absolutely no "Separation of Church and State" in America
DAVID BARTON State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.
ADAM COHEN
Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue. TED CRUZ
Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a... DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER This is a nation of inconsistencies. The Puritans fleeing from oppression became oppressors. We foug...
MARY LEASE It is inappropriate for the state to be enlisted into internal religious debates.
LAURA EVERETT
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the ... EMMA GOLDMAN Patriotic Americans should observe a day of prayer and thanksgiving for this stunning and historic r...
GARY GLENN
The loathsome combination of Church and State THOMAS JEFFERSON
While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty. CHARLES EVANS HUGHES
While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty CHARLES EVANS HUGHES Of all the weapons vital for a speedy victory, the most vital is information.
JOHN MAN If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women...
JAMES TALENT These results reflect the general state of uncertainty that is prevalent in today's economy. Employe...
DENNIS JACOBE If the federal government believes free contraception is vital, then surely it can find another way ...
LUTHER STRANGE
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretche...
EMMA LAZARUS The church is the center of the black community, ... The church provides day care, education and hou...
ADAM HUNTER America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning ...
, TO THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS, COLUMBUS, OHIO In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all sel...
ARTHUR KEITH
Like other universities do, Liberty hosts a number of events for outside organizations, businesses, ... JERRY FALWELL, JR. The Dutch Reformed Church was the state church of the apartheid regime and a fervent supporter of ap...
DAUGLAS DAUGLAS
People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A stat... JON HUNTSMAN, JR.
All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true. D. H. LAWRENCE
there is found a third level of religious experience, even if it is seldom found in a pure form. I w... ALBERT EINSTEIN
Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and author... MITT ROMNEY
The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religi... RUSH LIMBAUGH
I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil... 
The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly awar... 
Birmingham people are the salt of the earth, and I've carried that with me all around the world.... 
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k... 
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. 
The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there ar... 
It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel lik... 
Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs i... 
I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory th... 
Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time. 
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and le... 
I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties. 
Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth... 
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood... 
People use irony as a defense mechanism. 
Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off? 
You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends. 
I like time off. I'm not a workaholic. 
I've had an awful lot of good fortune. 
There were times when I was a joke, but talent survives. 
Most people view success by the results, and I don't. 
The law always limits every power it gives. 
Life to me is a journey - you never know what may be your next destination. 
False modesty can be worse than arrogance. 
If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve. 
What I value most in my friends is loyalty. 
I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea ... 
Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you ... 
A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit,... 
Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in... 
The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason. 
The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. T... 
I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and le... 