Separation Of Church State Quotes

I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.

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

It was conceptually impossible before the year 1700, about, for anybody in the world to say when religion began and politics ended.

… to claim the President of the United States must hold your theological position is absurd. He is President of the United States of America not the President of the Baptist convention or Bishop of the Sanctified or Holiness Church. He is called to protect the rights of Jew and Gentile, male and female, young and old

I think it's already apparent that a good part of this Nation understands - if only instinctively - that anything which seems to suggest that God favors a political party or the establishment of a state church, is wrong and dangerous.

Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church.

Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.

Religion is too important an aspect of human life to be prostituted to politics, just as politics is too important a part of human life to be enslaved to religion.