Separation Of Church And State Quotes

Separation Of Church And State Quotes by Susan Jacoby, George Washington, Christine O’Donnell, Anna Quindlen, Roy Moore, Thomas Jefferson and many others.

I think very few people realize how much the separation

I think very few people realize how much the separation of church and state has to do with the fact that Americans are not only more religious than a lot of other people in the world but that conversions are much more common here.
Susan Jacoby
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.
George Washington
Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?
Christine O’Donnell
the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government.
Anna Quindlen
Separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.
Roy Moore
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
Thomas Jefferson
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion;

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
Thomas Paine
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.
Thomas Jefferson
Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government.
Thomas Jefferson
The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man.
Thomas Jefferson
It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights.
George Washington
We believe in separation of church and state, that there should be no unwarranted influence on the church or religion by the state, and vice versa.
Jimmy Carter
All are free to believe or not believe; all are free to

All are free to believe or not believe; all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief
Jeff Miller
I… [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
Thomas Jefferson