Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes

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.

The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, that the duties we owe to God and the manner of discharging those duties are outside the purview of government.

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

The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants.

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.

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

Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.

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.

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

The 1st Amendment was established to ensure, in addition to free exercise, that the state did not have the power to establish any particular religious teaching.

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

The First Amendment forbids the setting up of recognition of a state church of special favors and advantages which are denied to others

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

Any attempt to single out Islam would be a violation of the Constitution.

Acknowledgment of God is not now, or ever has been, a violation of the US constitution.

When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a wall of hostility between government and the concept of religious belief itself.

No power over the freedom of religion [is] delegated to the United States by the Constitution.

If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith.

The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext infringed.

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

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

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

Prayer and dependence on God has been our history. How unfortunate it is now that an unaccountable and unelected and misguided judge from Wisconsin, Judge Barbara Crabb, has declared National Days of Prayer - established by the Congress - to be unconstitutional.