Quotes about State

Real faith is never something that can be forced by the state. It's something that either be encouraged and smiled upon or discouraged and frowned-upon.

What madness is the course I am pursuing. I believe all the great truths of the Christian religion, but I am not acting as though I did. Should I die in this state I must go into a place of misery.

Bonhoeffer's three conclusions—that the church must question the state, help the state's victims, and work against the state, if necessary—were too much for almost everyone. But for him they were inescapable. In time, he would do all three.

A state which which includes within itself a terrorized Church has lost its most faithful servant.

I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.

Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.

Nationalism calls forth the countermovement of internationalism.[84] Both are revolutionary in the same way. Prussia set the state over against them both. It wanted to be neither national nor international. In this its thought was more Western than that of the revolution.

I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn't think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.

But as time goes on, they, as all men, will find that independence was not made for man—that it is an unnatural state—will do for a while, but will not carry us on safely to the end . . .