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• Education belongs pre-eminently to the church ... neutral or lay schools from which religion is excluded are contrary to the fundamental principles of education.
  -- Pope Pius XI...
• The neer to the church, the further from God. -- John Heywood (c.
  1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. ix...
• The First Amendment has erected a wall of separation between church and state, but that wall is a one directional wall
  it keeps the government from running the church, but it makes sure that Christian principles will always stay in government....
• From The Church Of Logic, Sin And Love...
• 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 ac
  and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote -- where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference -- and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him....
• If one inquires why the American tradition is so strong against any connection of State and Church
  why it dreads even the rudiments of religious teaching in state-maintained schools, the immediate and superficial answer is not far to seek....
• The nearer to the church, the further from God. -- John Heywood
• But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religio
  before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing t heir oppressors in Church and State....
• 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 ac
  and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote--where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference--and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him....