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Quotes About Separation

My parents are really good people - they just are not meant to be together.
~ Hayden Panettiere
If God is in fact separated from the government, then we can never possibly have a godly government. There's no way for America to be good if she's not godly.
~ Joyce Meyer
We all have to find our own ways to say good-bye.
~ Sherman Alexie
...having a member who serves in the Government and who also belongs to the structures of the party does not retard this particular objective the separation of party and state. It does not.
~ Jacob Zuma
If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in.
~ Ronald Reagan
We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.
~ Robert Reich
The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government.
~ Todd Akin
Governments without separation of powers commit the worst crimes.
~ James Cook
Get out of our schools God, get out of our textbooks God, get out of our government God, go away God, go away God, go away God, Katrina hits, God, where are you?
~ Brad Stine
All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.
~ Henry Clay
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
~ James Madison
Separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.
~ Roy Moore
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.
~ David Barton
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.
~ Tom DeLay
There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers.
~ Ricardo Lagos
I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology.
~ Taslima Nasrin
I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.
~ John Locke
A just government has no need for the clergy or the church.
~ James Madison
I do not expect to see home again.
~ Edward Snowden
It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.
~ Herbert Hoover
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
It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.
~ Thomas Paine
Atheistic secular humanists should be removed from office and Christians should be elected...Government and true Christianity are inseparable.
~ Robert Simonds