Sam Ervin quotes

Sam Ervin quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.”
-- Sam Ervin

#Past Quotes #Atmosphere Quotes #President Quotes
“I believe in a wall between church and state so high that no one can climb over it.”
-- Sam Ervin

#Wall Quotes #Believe Quotes #Church Quotes
“Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion.”
-- Sam Ervin

#Religious Quotes #Land Quotes #Political Quotes
“Religious faith is not a storm cellar to which men and women can flee for refuge from the storms of life. It is instead, an inner spiritual strength which enables them to face those storms with hope and serenity.”
-- Sam Ervin

Source : Sam J. Ervin Jr. (2014). “Humor of a Country Lawyer”, p.88, UNC Press Books

#Spiritual Quotes #Religious Quotes #Angel Quotes
“There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.”
-- Sam Ervin

#President Quotes #Criminals Quotes #Constitution Quotes
“Recalling an old magistrate's words to a young attorney, The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella; But chiefly on the just, because The unjust steals the just's umbrella.”
-- Sam Ervin

#Rain Quotes #Unjust Quotes #Injustice Quotes
“If religious freedom is to endure in America, the responsibility for teaching religion to public school children must be left to the homes and churches of our land, where this responsibility rightfully belongs. It must not be assumed by the government through the agency of the public school system.”
-- Sam Ervin

#Religious Quotes #Children Quotes #Teaching Quotes
“A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it.”
-- Sam Ervin

Source : Sam J. Ervin Jr. (2014). “Humor of a Country Lawyer”, p.38, UNC Press Books

#Father Quotes #Mean Quotes #Judging Quotes
“Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?”
-- Sam Ervin

#White Quotes #Divine Right Quotes #House Quotes
“I've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them, nothing.”
-- Sam Ervin

#Business Quotes #People Quotes #Sometimes Quotes
“When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.”
-- Sam Ervin

#Religious Quotes #Government Quotes #Political Quotes
“I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.”
-- Sam Ervin

#Country Quotes #War Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes
“Humor makes our heavy burdens light and smoothes the rough spots in our pathways.”
-- Sam Ervin

#Light Quotes #Pathways Quotes #Burden Quotes
“What James Madison and the other men of his generation had in mind when they wrote the First Amendment was that there should be no official relationship of any character between government and any church or many churches, and no levying of taxes for the support of any church, or many churches, or all churches, or any institution conducted by any of them.”
-- Sam Ervin

#Character Quotes #Men Quotes #Support Quotes
“The Supreme Court has made God unconstitutional.”
-- Sam Ervin

#Scary Quotes #Made Quotes #Court Quotes
“A 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 Ervin

#Prayer Quotes #School Quotes #Atheism Quotes
“Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.”
-- Sam Ervin

#Science Quotes #Tests Quotes #Century Quotes
“Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.”
-- Sam Ervin

#Government Quotes #Atheism Quotes #Finance Quotes

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