When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.
Sam ErvinGovernment is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.
Sam ErvinThe President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.
Sam ErvinA judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it.
Sam ErvinWhat 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.
Sam Ervin