Lowell P. Weicker Jr. Quotes

To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

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.

Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

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

All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All separated from government, are compatible with liberty.

When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.

The settled opinion here is, that religion is essentially distinct from civil Government, and exempt from its cognizance; that a connection between them is injurious to both.

I don’t believe in theocracy. Everywhere you have a state religion, it dies.

If they wanted a Christian state, they could have done it. They were writing the rules. They could have put God in the rules.

Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life.

History showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread its faith.

My principles in respect of religious interest are two,--one is, that the Church shall not meddle with politics, and the government shall not meddle with religion.

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.

I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.

There is not a shadow of right in the general government to intermeddle with religion

T]he prevailing opinion in Europe, England not excepted, has been that religion could not be preserved without the support of government nor government be supported without an established religion that there must be at least an alliance of some sort between them. It remained for North America to bring the great and interesting subject to a fair, and finally a decisive test

The President is the Theologian in Chief.

Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government.

That wall is a one directional wall. It keeps the government from running the church but it makes sure that Christian principles will always stay in government.

Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate it needs them not.