Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.
Sam ErvinPolitical freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion.
Sam ErvinI've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them, nothing.
Sam ErvinIf religious freedom is to endure in America, the responsibility for teaching religion to public school children must be left to the homes and churches of our land, where this responsibility rightfully belongs. It must not be assumed by the government through the agency of the public school system.
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