Church-State Divide Quotes

The settled opinion here is, that religion is essentially distinct from civil Government, and exempt from its cognizance; that a connection between them is injurious to both.

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.

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

I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, not even in Sweden.

I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.

The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.

The church state-wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach.

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'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

It belongs to American liberty to separate entirely the institution which has for its object the support and diffusion of religion from the political government.

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.

I agree with the idea that there is a separation of church and state. That teachers should not be leading prayer - a particular kind of prayer in classrooms.

The Church's role should be separated from the state's role.

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.

Most people I know I think agree and even many theists agree with this. We don't want government involved.

In the public realm, secularism should not concede a single inch to religious intrusions.

The manifest object of the men who framed the institutions of this country, was to have a State without religion and a Church without politics—that is to say, they meant that one should never be used as an engine for the purposes of the other.... For that reason they built up a wall of complete and perfect partition between the two.

The greatest achievement ever made in the cause of human progress is the total and final separation of church and state. If we had nothing else to boast of, we could lay claim with justice that first among the nations we of this country made it an article of organic law that the relations between man and his Maker were a private concern, into which other men have no right to intrude.

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

They [Americans] all attributed the peaceful dominion of religion in their country mainly to the separation of church and state. I do not hesitate to affirm that during my stay in America I did not meet a single individual, of the clergy or the laity, who was not of the same opinion on this point.