Jerry Falwell Quotes

Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.

We want no new types of public appropriations for sectarian purposes

Any religious organization should be allowed to hire based on their religious preference- but not with federal dollars.

I'm very upset that the Supreme Court ruled that citizens don't have standing to challenge the faith based initiatives on constitutional grounds.

No money of the state shall ever be given or appropriated to any sectarian or religious society or institution.

I believe it is in the national interest that government stand side-by-side with people of faith who work to change lives for the better. I understand in the past, some in government have said government cannot stand side-by-side with people of faith. Let me put it more bluntly, government can't spend money on religious programs simply because there's a rabbi on the board, cross on the wall, or a crescent on the door. I viewed this as not only bad social policy - because policy by-passed the great works of compassion and healing that take place - I viewed it as discrimination.

I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can't.

The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.

I disagree strongly with the concept of separation of church and state. It was not written into the Constitution.

Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.

Religious freedom is already protected in the United States. It's in our Constitution. It's in most state constitutions.

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.

Every American has the constitutional right not to be taxed or have his tax money expended for the establishment of a religion.

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

Thomas Jefferson rode his horse around the 13 Colonies to try to keep us from having a national religion. Mixing religion and politics doesn’t work.

No sectarian tenets shall ever be taught in any school supported in whole or in part by the State, nations, or by the proceeds of any tax levied upon any community.

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.

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 in blood for centuries.

Today, the religion clauses of the 1st Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed.

Opinions of the founding generation were scattered all across the spectrum on the question of the assistance government should give religion.

The government … spends more and more of our tax money financing "faith-based organizations." Without faith we might relapse into scientific or rational thinking, which leads by a slippery slope toward constitutional democracy.

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

Because the bill in reserving a certain parcel of land of the United States for the use of said Baptist Church comprises a principle and precedent for the appropriation of funds of the United States for the use and support of religious societies, contrary to the article of the Constitution which declares the 'Congress shall make no law respecting a religious establishment’