Michael Newdow Quotes

The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation of church and state so that the laws we live by our never guided by religious zeal.

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

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

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.

Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo.

The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

The 1st Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach.

The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.

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

The greatest achievement ever made in the cause of human progress is the total and final separation of church and state. If we had nothing else to boast of, we could lay claim with justice that first among the nations we of this country made it an article of organic law that the relations between man and his Maker were a private concern, into which other men have no right to intrude.

The Constitution has never treated religion as merely another private opinion that government can order people to keep to themselves.

The point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment.

From a constitutional standpoint, the religion of a candidate is supposed to make no difference. Even before the founding fathers dreamed up the First Amendment, they inserted a provision in the Constitution expressly prohibiting any religious test for office.

Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith.

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period.

By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.

As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of government to protect all conscientious professors therefore, and I know of no other business which government hath to do therewith.

State power is no more to be used so as to handicap religions than it is to favor them.

The government ought to stay out of the prayer business.

Is the appointment of Chaplains to the two Houses of Congress consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom? In strictness, the answer on both points must be in the negative.

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than on opinions in physics or geometry.