ROY MOORE

If God gives you rights, no man and no government can take them away from you.

No, I think that we've got a basic discrepancy here between the rule of law versus the rule of man.

The Church's role should be separated from the state's role.

It is altogether proper for people to recognize a sovereign God.

The point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment.

They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge.

Well, that's the - the removal from office and removal of the Ten Commandments were two different issues.

The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.

If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.

It would bother me if a judge told me how I had to believe.

The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, that the duties we owe to God and the manner of discharging those duties are outside the purview of government.

It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government.

But I have made no plans to run for any office right now.

Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.

They don't want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state.

I know Dr. Kennedy and I know Coral Ridge Ministries. I have no connection.

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

Anytime you deny the acknowledgement of God you are undermining the entire basis for which our country exists.

The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were outside of government's prerogative, that government had no business interfering with the way we worship God.

But in the long term, I think it is improper to limit your future.

Rights come from God, not from government.

But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such.

The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power.

The Constitution was about a limitation on power.

Power's not what the Constitution was about.