Ronald Reagan Quotes

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

From the Founding Era onward, there was strong consensus about the centrality of religious liberty in the United States.

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.

When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong.

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.

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.

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed 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.

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

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.

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

The passage of the 1st Amendment is the single most dramatic and significant turning point of a revolutionary transition to religious freedom.

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

Freedom of religion is a fundamental Constitutional principle. It's a founding principle of this country.

America was founded to be a beacon of liberty, particularly religious liberty. The framers of our Constitution sought to preserve religious liberty to such an extent that they made it the first right protected in the Bill of Rights.

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

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

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

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.

It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.