Ronald Reagan Quotes About Church And State

• We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Pluralism Is, Presidential

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

• We in the United States, above all, must remember that lesson, for we were founded as a nation of openness to people of all beliefs. And so we must remain. Our very unity has been strengthened by our pluralism. We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate. All are free to believe or not believe, all are free to practice a faith or not, and those who believe are free, and should be free, to speak of and act on their belief.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Believe, Pluralism Is

  Ronald Reagan's Remarks to Members of the Congregation of Temple Hillel and Jewish Community Leaders in Valley Stream, New York, www.reaganlibrary.gov. October 26, 1984.

• Now I realize it's fashionable in some circles to believe that no one in government should encourage others to read the Bible. That we're told we'll violate the constitutional separation of church and state established by the Founding Fathers and the First Amendment. The First Amendment was not written to protect people and their laws from religious values. It was written to protect those values from government tyranny.

  Ronald Reagan

  Religious, Father, Believe

• There is a fundamental difference between separation of church and state and denying the spiritual heritage of this country. Inscribed on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. are Jefferson's words, 'The God Who gave us life gave us liberty -- can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?'

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Spiritual, Differences

• Church and state are, and must remain, separate.

  Ronald Reagan

  Pluralism Is, Church, States

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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