Allen West Quotes

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

There is no room for theocracy in Islam.

Don't Politicize Churches! Houses Of Worship Should Not Be Part Of A Political Machine

Clergymen should not get involved with politics.

I don't want to separate religion and state, I want to settle it.

I think it's very important for people who are serving (in office) to make sure there's a separation of church and state.

Kind of the bottom line for me, I don't think people come to the church where I preach to hear my view on politics.

Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.

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.

Quite often you hear people say, 'What about separation of church and state?' There is no such thing.

The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.

As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion …. The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.

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.

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

I do believe in the separation of church and state. But I don't think separation of church and state means you have to be free from your faith.

In Britain, we are not a secular state as France is, or some other countries.

Freedom of religion does not entitle your religion to have a privileged position within the public sphere.

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

The First Amendment, however, does not say that in every and all respects there shall be a separation of Church and State. Rathe, it studiously defines the manner, the specific ways, in which there shall be no concert or union or dependency one on the other. That is the common sense of the matter. Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other.

Alongside my own deep personal faith, I am a follower, as well, of our civic religion. I am a big believer in the separation of church and state.

No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion.

Church and state are, and must remain, separate.

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

politics and religion in the United States work like the twin grips of a pair of pliers on a critical mass of the masses.

Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.