Craig Ferguson Quotes

I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute.

I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution. By my office - and by personal conviction - I am sworn to uphold that tradition.

I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act. I do not speak for my church on public matters - and the church does not speak for me.

It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.

The First Amendment, however, does not say that in every and all respects there shall be a separation of Church and State. Rathe, it studiously defines the manner, the specific ways, in which there shall be no concert or union or dependency one on the other. That is the common sense of the matter. Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other.

The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.

The disconnection of Church and State was a master stroke for freedom and harmony.

The union of Church and State is not to make the Church political, but the State religious.

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.

Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state.

I believe in the separation of church and state and would not use my authority to violate this principle in any way.

It is the wall of separation between church and state . . . that is largely responsible for religion thriving in this country, as compared to those European countries in which church and state have been united, resulting in opposition to the church by those who disapprove of the government.

I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, not even in Sweden.

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.

They [Americans] all attributed the peaceful dominion of religion in their country mainly to the separation of church and state. I do not hesitate to affirm that during my stay in America I did not meet a single individual, of the clergy or the laity, who was not of the same opinion on this point.

There's a reason we seperate Church and State. The reason for the richness and the diversity of religion in this nation is because of the seperation of Church and State, and there are people out there who can't wait to make this nation a nation of one religion... THEIR religion.

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 separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government.

The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.

I fully understand it's important to maintain the separation of church and state. We don't want the state to become the church, nor do we want the church to become the state.

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.

I believe in the separation of church and state. The government has the right to say what happens in a civil case, like in a court house. And religious people have a right to say what happens in a church congregation. They are two completely separate things.

Church and state are, and must remain, separate.

The divorce between church and state should be absolute.

When church and state are separate, the effects are happy, and they do not at all interfere with each other: but where they have been confounded together, no tongue nor pen can fully describe the mischiefs that have ensued.