Quotes About Government

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

Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.

If churches want to play the game of politics, let them pay admission like everyone else.

The state (the U.S. Constitution) has not the right to leave every man free to profess and embrace whatever religion he may desire.

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.

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.

The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.

No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.

How will it end?... a vision of a universal religion, which will embrace all creeds; a universal government which will embrace all humanity; a universal knowledge which will make all mankind kin.

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.

Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.

...balance the budget ? Tax religion.

Indeed, as long as a country has a culture a religion an ideology where Islam is dominant it will never be a democracy.

Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.

Too often, we see people who are prevented from practicing their religion because of a government mandate.

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.

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.

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.