Quotes About State

The boundary of your state is not the boundary of your moral concern.

I'm pretty excited about the state of TV these days. There's great opportunity for really complicated relationships, in a way that I don't really see as much in movies anymore.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

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

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship.

The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.

Liberals want the family destroyed, they want religion destroned, because then you have loyalty directly to the state.

Some in the West suggest that Isam needs a separation of mosque and state. However, in the case of Iran at least what is needed is a separation lof religion and business.

When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.

Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.

Liberty of conscience is for those who truly fear the Lord. A fundamental task of the state is the establishment of pure religion.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate.

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence

Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion.

Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

Parents have no right to impose their religion on their children... A Fundamentalist Protestant parent has no right to expect the state to support his own narrow conception of education.

Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.

God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state.

Our critique of Israel has to be about the state, not culture or religion, but the state of Israel

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.

The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.