Quotes About Religion

Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family.

If you disagree with your government, that's political. If you disagree with your government that is approaching theocracy, then you're evil.

Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to dictatorial and oppressive government?

If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate.

Socialism requires that government becomes your god.

All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

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

That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due.

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.

The government should not be in the business of funneling money for social services through any faith-based organization

While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.

We now live in a secular humanist theocracy. I want to change that to a government with God at its head.

I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is that there will not be a government church.

Government has no Right to hurt a hair of the head of an Atheist, for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.

A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that god prefers some

Democracy is the worst kind of government, I'm sorry. Would you still call yourself a Christian if they elected a new Jesus every four years?

Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.

Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate it needs them not.

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.

Governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology.