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"Congress
shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof . . ."
The
First Amendment of the
U.S. Constitution
"
. . the government of the United States is not, in any sense,
founded on the Christian religion" (1797 treaty of
Tripoli)
George
Washington, President
John Adams, Senate President
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".......thus building a wall
of separation between church and state."
.
. . Thomas Jefferson, 1802
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When a religion is good, I
conceive that it will support itself, and, when it cannot
support itself, and God does not take care to support, so that
its Professors are obliged to call for help of the Civil
Power, it is a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.
.
. . Benjamin Franklin
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I believe in an America where the
separation of church and state is absolute.
.
. . John F. Kennedy
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The number, the industry and the
morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people
have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the
church from the state.
. . .
James Madison, 1819
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