Quotes about Politics
Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.
- John Adams
For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.
- Mahatma Gandhi
I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.
- George Washington
Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else's death.
- Elie Wiesel
What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.
- Thomas Jefferson
Given the religious nature and the emotional power of Leftist values, Jews and Christians on the Left often derive their values from the Left more than from their religion.
- Dennis Prager
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.
- Calvin Coolidge
As a result, socialism and communism, in particular, use government to suppress religion to such a degree as to leave the one true God out entirely.
- Tony Evans
Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive
- Ronald Reagan
I think those governments who resent religion, they're afraid of religion because religion may be in their eyes, in their views be seen as a counter government or a parallel government.
- Elie Wiesel