George W. Bush Quotes

I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution. By my office - and by personal conviction - I am sworn to uphold that tradition.

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

Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.

I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together

The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.

Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled.

The Church's role should be separated from the state's role.

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 think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena.

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 line] cannot be too strongly drawn between church and state.

There is no room for theocracy in Islam.

Congress shall not make any law infringing the rights of conscience, or establishing any religious sect or society Congress shall make no law establishing one religious sect or society in preference to others. Congress shall make no law establishing any particular denomination of religion in preference to another

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

What is crucial is that a government practice not have the effect of communicating a message of governmental endorsement or disapproval of religion.

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.

Total separation of church and state was considered the best safeguard for the health of each. As [Andrew] Jackson explained, in refusing to name a fast day, he feared to 'disturb the security which religion now enjoys in this country, in its complete separation from the political concerns of the General Government.'

You're telling me that the separation of church and state is found in the First Amendment?

Religion, which never intervenes directly in the government of American society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions

The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion.

In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life.

Church and state are, and must remain, separate.

Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.

We believe in separation of church and state, that there should be no unwarranted influence on the church or religion by the state, and vice versa.

Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?