Establishment Of Religion Quotes

#1. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

U.S. Congress

#2. I believe in the absolute separation of church and state and in the strict enforcement of the Constitution that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

Al Smith

#3. Under the First Amendment's prohibition of the establishment of religion, the Court has steadily made religion a matter for the private individual by driving it out of the public arena.

Robert Bork

#4. The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants.

P. J. O'Rourke

#5. Apparent contradictions between religion and science often have been the basis of bitter controversy. Such differences are to be expected as long as human understanding remains provisional and fragmentary.

Henry Eyring

#6. The Establishment Clause ... stands as an expression of principle on the part of the Founders ... that religion is too personal, too sacred, too holy, to permit its 'unhallowed perversion' by a civil magistrate.

Hugo Black

#7. But we are learning from the teaching and example of Jesus that life itself is a religion, that nothing is more sacred than a human being, that the end of all right institutions, whether the home or the church or an educational establishment, or a government, is the development of the human soul.

Anna Howard Shaw

#8. I have learned to accept my responsibility and to forgive myself first, then to apologise to anyone injured by my misreckoning.

Maya Angelou

#9. We need more Christians who take their place alongside believing and unbelieving neighbors in the daily gift exchange

Michael Horton

#10. There's a whole generation of women who never really heard the word investment before, when it came to fashion. They've been buying things because they were cheap.

Michael Kors

#11. The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.

James Madison

#12. A profession that we are a nation "under God" is identical, for Establishment Clause purposes, to a profession that we are a nation "under Jesus," a nation "under Vishnu," a nation "under Zeus," or a nation "under no god," because none of these professions can be neutral with respect to religion.

Alfred Goodwin

#13. The most grievous wrong of that day ... was to be found in the establishment of the celibacy of the clergy ... This hideous doctrine of a celibate priesthood was maintained only by a constant struggle against the better and truer instincts of the heart.

Lillie Devereux Blake

#14. I didn't make music videos in order to make a movie. Music videos were the goal for me, so it was never a step to something else. I approached it seriously.

Anton Corbijn

#15. The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles.

James Madison

#16. The establishment of Christianity ... arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.

Andrew Dickson White

#17. The church is not to be judged by how useful we are as a "supportive institution" and our clergy as members of a "helping profession". The church has its own reason for being, hid within its own mandate and not found in the world. We are not chartered by the Emperor.

Stanley Hauerwas

#18. The establishment clause was transformed from a shield for religion into a cover for the official sanctioning of religious tolerance.

Ralph E. Reed Jr.

#19. The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#20. Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

#21. Amaziah, the high priest, for it is, after all, the selfish religious establishment which has led the people into this institutionalized and meaningless form of religion.

Anonymous

#22. The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology.

Michael J. Findley

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

John Cotton

#24. Approving some religious claims while deeming others unworthy of accommodation could be 'perceived as favoring one religion over another,' the very 'risk the [Constitution's] Establishment Clause was designed to preclude.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#25. The founders proscribed the establishment of a state religion, but they did not countenance the elimination of religion from the public square. We are a nation 'Under God' and in God, we do indeed trust.

Mitt Romney

#26. Freedom is won by relegating religion to a purely private sphere remote from the body politic. In fact, the establishment of a free society is predicated on the idea that religion must be surgically removed from culture.

William Anthony Donohue