Quotes about Government

A nation that honors God will always be honored by God. I've seen nations that have dishonored God: God has been taken out of schools, the government, the military; and when you take Him out of a nation, how can you expect God to protect this nation?

When our government officials lodged complaints over their treatment of their own people, they were told it wasn't any of their business. They'd take our blood and weapons, but not our counsel. We were so afraid of the world turning communist… The choice was between one devil or the other.

Christ as a new conqueror changes the fundamental laws of the old Adam and establishes a government of his own.

Television has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system, government, or church.

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.

The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.

Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.

The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.

Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.

We believe in separation of church and state, that there should be no unwarranted influence on the church or religion by the state, and vice versa.

[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.

The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of the law for the virtues of men.