James A. Garfield Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in any state or in the nation, should be exempt from equal taxation; for if you exempt the property of any church organization, to that extent you impose a tax upon the whole community.

  James A. Garfield

  Divorce, Organization, Community

  Remark during Congressional debate. "Congressional Record", 43rd Congress, 1st Session, p. 5384, memory.loc.gov. June 22, 1874.

• [I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or of the States to the support of sectarian schools.

  James A. Garfield

  School, People, Support

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.783, Best Books on

• The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.

  James A. Garfield

  Atheism, Church, Taxation

• In my judgment it is the duty of Congress, while respecting to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen, to prohibit within its jurisdiction all criminal practices ... Nor can any ecclesiastical organization be safely permitted to usurp in the smallest degree the functions and powers of the National Government.

  James A. Garfield

  Religious, Government, Organization

  "Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States".

• The divorce between church and state should be absolute.

  James A. Garfield

  Divorce, Church, States

• In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.

  James A. Garfield

  Struggle, Long, Church

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.576, Best Books on

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