Church And State Quotes - Page 14

• Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

  George Washington

  Religious, Truth, Freedom

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• I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don't hurt anyone else in the process.

  Barry Goldwater

  Inspirational, Life, Hurt

  Barry Morris Goldwater, C. C. Goldwater (2007). “The Conscience of a Conservative”, p.129, Princeton University Press

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

  Michael Badnarik

  Party, Church, Libertarian

  "Candidate Profile: Michael Badnarik, Libertarian Party". www.foxnews.com. October 11, 2004.

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• We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. . . . This leads to frightful results. . . . The British State considers it the duty of an Englishman to kill people who are not English whenever a collection of elderly gentlemen in Westminster tells him to do so. . . . Church and State are placable enemies of both intelligence and virtue.

  Bertrand Russell

  Elderly, People, Gentleman

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• There should be absolutely no 'Separation of Church and State' in America.

  David Barton

  America, Church, Separation

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• I think there is a puritanical wind that is blowing. I have never seen such a lack of separation between church and state in America, I don’t believe in God, but if I did I would say that sex is a Godgiven right. Otherwise it’s the end of our species.

  Kevin Bacon

  Sex, Believe, Thinking

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• That utterance of Jesus, "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's," is one of the most revolutionary and history-making utterances that ever fell from those lips divine. That utterance, once and for all, marked the divorcement of church and state. It marked a new era for the creeds and deeds of men.

  George W Truett

  Jesus, Men, Atheism

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• Thanks in large measure to the ACLU, the belief that there is a wall of separation between faith and state, not just church and state, is endemic. The exercise of religious faith in the public square is not prohibited; only the federal imposition of a particular faith. Hardly anyone any longer knows the difference.

  F. LaGard Smith

  Christian, Religious, Wall

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• ... demanding a separation between church and state isn't enough; the churches' basic doctrines must be changed, with homophobia written out forever.

  Michelangelo Signorile

  Christian, Religious, Forever

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• The arbitrary division between church and state... is used, as an easily identifiable rallying point, to subdue the opinions of that vast body of citizens who represent those with religious convictions.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Religious, Rallying Point

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• Today the separation of church and state in America is used to silence the church. When Christians speak out on issues, the hue and cry from the humanist state and media is that Christians, an all religions, are prohibited from speaking since there is a separation of church and state.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Religious, Media

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the west”

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• Extremist groups like People for the American Way attack Christians who run for public office as a threat to the 'separation of church and state,' though they never specify why conservatives are any more of a threat than churchmen and church women on the Left who have led religiously inspired causes for decades.

  Ronald H. Nash

  Christian, Running, Religious

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• The problem is efforts by liberals to establish a wall between religion and society, in the guise of maintaining the wall between church and state.

  Irving Kristol

  Christian, Religious, Wall

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• Anytime you hear the concept of the separation of church and state being talked about these days, it is never in regard to maintaining the restraints on government; instead, it is always talking about what Christians and churches cannot do.

  D. James Kennedy

  Christian, Religious, Talking

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• The contemporary quarrel over church and state is not really about whether a wall of separation of church and state should exist or not... The real question is what does 'separation' mean?

  James Davison Hunter

  Christian, Religious, Wall

  James Davison Hunter (1992). “Culture Wars: The Struggle To Control The Family, Art, Education, Law, And Politics In America”, p.262, Basic Books

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• The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.

  James Russell Lowell

  Education, School, Church

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.242

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• The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any.

  Warren E. Burger

  Christian, Religious, Tolerance

  Warren E. Burger (1984). “Significant Supreme Court Opinions of the Honorable Warren E. Burger: Chief Justice of the United States”

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• 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.

  David Barton

  Christian, Religious, School

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• If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors."

  Felix Frankfurter

  Church, Neighbor, Fence

  "Illinois ex rel. McCollum v. Board of Education of School District, 333 U.S. 203". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 8, 1948.

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• The liberal understanding of 'the separation of church and state' means that as the area of politics expands, the area of private freedom - religious and otherwise - shrinks.

  Joseph Sobran

  Religious, Mean, Understanding

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• If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

  Tony Campolo

  Government, Church, Sacred

  Tony Campolo (2010). “Red Letter Christians (Large Print 16pt)”, p.97, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• For me, it's church and state, not church in state, and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing that line.

  Eric Williams

  Ohio, Church, Lines

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• In a Christian Theocracy, you'll never be Christian enough. There's always going to be somebody there with another version of Christianity that is more Christian than you and you're going to lose the freedom to make the choice because you didn't defend the Separation of Church and State when you had the chance.

  David Silverman

  Christian, Choices, Church

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• If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

  Francis Bacon

  Church, Guarantees, Literature

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• This is one thing that's very interesting, how the people on the left always talk about separation of church and state. When you look at the theocracies all across the Middle East, where we look at constitutions that are based upon the Qur'an, I don't think you want to see that happening in the United States of America. So it is a theocratic political construct.

  Allen West

  Thinking, America, People

  Source: www.browardpalmbeach.com

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