Jimmy Carter Quotes

The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.

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.

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.

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.

In the case Stone v. Graham, the Supreme Court ruled that - under 'separation of church and state' - it was unconstitutional for a student in school to even see a copy of the Ten Commandments.

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

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

That wall is a one directional wall. It keeps the government from running the church but it makes sure that Christian principles will always stay in government.

It is false to suggest that Thomas Jefferson or any other Founding Father believed in a legal barrier to God in the public square.

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

The Founders intended only to prevent the establishment of a single national denomination, not to restrain public religious expressions.

Declare church and state forever separate and distinct; but each free within their proper spheres.

The disconnection of Church and State was a master stroke for freedom and harmony.

There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that sanctifies the separation of church and state.

There is no relationship here between Church and State. Religious liberty has its unalterable place, along with civil and human liberty, in the very foundation of the Republic. I hold it [religious intolerance] to be a menace to the very liberties which we boast and cherish.

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

Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state.

I don't know that the Libertarian Party has an official position on the separation of church and state.

But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.

There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such influence to destroy spiritual life and power.

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.

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

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

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