Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.
Sam ErvinA school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states, that is, the power to establish religion.
Sam ErvinWhen religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.
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 Ervin