Ulysses S. Grant Quotes

Resolve that neither the state nor nation, nor both combined, shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford every child growing up in the land of opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with sectarian, pagan, or atheistical dogmas.

All pupils of school age have the right to moral or religious education at the community’s expense.

Since the association of seasonal activities with religious activities in the public schools tends to pervert their religious significance, such association be discouraged as foreign to the purpose of the public schools.

This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into (schools).

We want no new types of public appropriations for sectarian purposes

Keeping education in the United States free of sectarian influence has long been one of the primary struggles of believers in freedom of religion.

Whatever help the nation can justly afford should be generously given to aid the States in supporting common schools; but it would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of the revenues of the nation or of the States to the support of sectarian schools.

I am opposed to the Federal Government spending any money to sustain church schools ….

Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.

Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.

The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.

I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited.

I'd like the United States to become what it was always meant to be, which is a secular nation - more publicly committed to reason, to improving understanding, and promoting education.

I am and have always been a strong proponent of public education. But by the virtue of its very nature - publicly funded schools cannot offer the type of spiritual education that Catholic schools have long provided.

Any religious organization should be allowed to hire based on their religious preference- but not with federal dollars.

I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.

I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.

I hope to see the day when as in the early days of our country, we won’t have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over …

No money shall ever be taken from the public treasury, directly or indirectly, in aid of any church, sect, cult, or religious denomination or of any sectarian institution

No money of the state shall ever be given or appropriated to any sectarian or religious society or institution.

At the last meeting of the Board of Education, Mr. Maegher called attention to the chanting of the Lord's Prayer in the public schools, which is a violation of a rule which forbids the introduction of religious matters. We are glad this subject has come up at last. The Lord's Prayer has been brought into disrespect about long enough by being snarled through the dirty noses of a hundred bad boys and preposterous girls.

The problems of public schools will not be solved by cutting off the source of their funding, which is what vouchers are.

There is no neutral aid when that aid principally flows to religious institutions nor is there truly “private choice” when the available choices resulting from the program are predominantly religious.