Nikki Haley Quotes

Whether we like it or not, religion and government policy are unavoidably linked.

Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.

Religion must be disciplined by democracy.

I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.

Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of things - they clearly rejected the idea of an established church.

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

To say that religion cannot stand without a state establishment is not only contrary to fact (as has been proved already) but is a contradiction in phrase.

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

It is of the utmost danger to society to make it (religion) a party in political disputes …. Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.

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

Religion is extremely important in this democracy - so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights.

I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.

I don’t see a bit of danger from us having an established religion.

We early freed ourselves from the incubus of a State Church.

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

All true democratic movements have been branded anti-religious.

if any sect suffered itself to be used for political objects I would meet it by political opposition. In my view church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact. Religion and politics should not be mingled.

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

Is it the duty of a deist to support that which he believes to be a cheat and imposition? Is it the duty of the Jew to support the religion of Jesus Christ, when he really believes that he was an imposter? Must the papist be forced to pay men for preaching down the supremacy of the pope, whom they are sure is the head of the church? Government has no more to do with the religious opinions of men than it has with the principles of mathematics

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

In Europe liberty meant a struggle against the church. Freedom meant freedom from religion whereas in America freedom meant freedom for religion.

The First Amendment mandates government neutrality between religion and religion, and between religion and non-religion.

Our government makes no sense, unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith—and I don't care what it is.

Secularism is the crucial difference between Turkey and the rest of the Muslim world.

Religious liberty, hey, it's about religious liberty. And there has to be a melding of both. We're living in a time where you have to have a melding of both. But it's very unfair what they're doing to religion in this country.