Sam Ervin Men Quotations

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

What James Madison and the other men of his generation had in mind when they wrote the First Amendment was that there should be no official relationship of any character between government and any church or many churches, and no levying of taxes for the support of any church, or many churches, or all churches, or any institution conducted by any of them.

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