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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy. — Gore Vidal

It is easy for those who conflate religion with government to interpret any criticism of government or policy as an 'attack' on their 'faith'. — Christina Engela

The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion. — Preston Manning

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion. — John Paul Stevens

You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government. — Marco Rubio

Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion. — John Adams

Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

I have sworn upon the altar of god ... — Thomas Jefferson

When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes. — Sam Ervin

The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality. — Fisher Ames

The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn't say keep religion out of government. — Rand Paul

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart. — Thomas Jefferson

The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion. — George Washington

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive — Ronald Reagan

The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld. — Michael Newdow

The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government. — R.J. Rushdoony

Religion and faith are very personal matters. So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the Constitution of India. — Narendra Modi

My definition of secularism is very clear. The sole religion of the Government is Nation First, the holy book is the Constitution. — Narendra Modi

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government. — James Madison

I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps — Thornton Wilder

On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government. — Alexis De Tocqueville

The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason. — Thomas Paine

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion. — Ernest Istook

The Word of God proves the truth of religion; the corruption of man, its necessity; government, its advantages. — Stanislaw Leszczynski

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king. — George Bancroft

The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion. — Philip Schaff

Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God. — Sam Ervin

I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man. — Thomas Jefferson

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government? — Frank Herbert

Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?

{Letter to Thomas Jefferson, May 19, 1821} — John Adams

A great business investment, religion. I'll take it over government bonds anytime. — Ron Rash

Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people. — Thomas Jefferson

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion. — Hugo Black

It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded. — Thomas Paine

Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends. — William Penn

I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government. — Gary Johnson

I am, as far as my politics reaches, 'King and Country' - no 'Innovations in Religion and Government' say I. — John Clare

We are soon approaching a refined holiday, "Merry Mas," where Christ will be taken out of its context. — Anthony Liccione

Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion — Elbert Hubbard

What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity. — Edwin Gaustad

While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support. — George Washington

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

Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments. — Gouverneur Morris

So I said good-bye to government, And I gave my reason: That a really good religion Is a form of treason. — Kurt Vonnegut

Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether. — Michael Newdow

Too often, we see people who are prevented from practicing their religion because of a government mandate. — Carly Fiorina

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion. — Jeremy Bentham

To speak against religion (the Christian) is breaking down the bond of good government. — James L. Petigru

The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions. — Thomas Jefferson

Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government. — Bertrand Russell

As a result, socialism and communism, in particular, use government to suppress religion to such a degree as to leave the one true God out entirely. — Tony Evans

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force. — Ayn Rand

In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it. — Jared Diamond

[H]istory showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread its faith. — Hugo Black

Remove God from the world of ideas. Remove government, politics from society. Keep sex, humor, utilities. Let private property go. — John Cage

Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power. — Eric Metaxas

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics. — Mahatma Gandhi

We must move as quickly as possible to a one-world government; a one-world religion; under a one world leader. — Robert Mueller

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

Government and religion united, and breaking a law became sin. A smell of blasphemy arose like smoke around any questioning of governmental edicts. — Frank Herbert

The Bible is the supreme law that all governments must obey. — Randall Terry

Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true. — Stefan Molyneux

History makes the point time and time again No greater mischief can be created than to merge the power of religion with the power of government. — Lowell P. Weicker Jr.

Many evangelicals believe religious freedom, if not religion itself, faces major problems with the government in the future. — Joel Hunter

The national Government sees in both Christian denominations the most important factor for the maintenance of our society. — Adolf Hitler

Religion [is] the basis and foundation of Government — James Madison

It is error alone that needs the support of government.2 Truth can stand by itself. - THOMAS JEFFERSON, on freedom of religion — Jon Meacham

He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god. — Stefan Molyneux

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. — Pierre Beaumarchais

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. — Anna Quindlen