Prayer In School Quotes:

I'm for prayer in schools.

- Charles Evers

topic: Prayer, School, Prayer In School

I'll tell you right now. I'm for prayer in school.

- Kinky Friedman

topic: Prayer, School, Prayer In School

I’m not in favor of the government mandating a prayer in school because our country was founded on the fact that no particular religious faith would have ascendance over or preferential treatment over any other.

- Jimmy Carter

topic: Country, Religious, Prayer, Prayer In School, Preferential Treatment

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

- Ronald Reagan

source: Remarks at a Dallas Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast, delivered 23 August 1984 at Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX

topic: Inspirational, God, Country, Inspirational Patriotic, Inspiring Presidential

I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to remain silent - we can take our Fifth Amendment.

- Ronald Reagan

source: Address to the National Religious Broadcasters Convention, delivered 30 January 1984, Sheraton Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C.

topic: Prayer, Believe, School, Prayer In School, Moment Of Silence

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

- James Madison

source: Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates, J. W. Randolph, James Madison (1850). “The Virginia Report of 1799-1800: Touching the Alien and Sedition Laws; Together with the Virginia Resolutions of December 21, 1798, Including the Debate and Proceedings Thereon in the House of Delegates of Virginia and Other Documents Illustrative of the Report and Resolutions”, p.136

topic: Exercise, Secular Society, Law, Redress, Founding

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.

- Cokie Roberts

topic: Prayer, School, Long, Prayer In School, Funny Mathematics

Banning prayer in school in effect made God unconstitutional.

- Rush Limbaugh

topic: Christian, Religious, Prayer, Prayer In School

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.

- Hugo Black

source: Writing for the court, Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421, 1962.

topic: Government, Religion, Unions, Prayer In School, Religion And Government

Last year I was on Pat Robertson's show, and we discussed our basic Christian faith - for instance, separation of church and state. It's contrary to my beliefs to try to exalt Christianity as having some sort of preferential status in the United States. That violates the Constitution. I'm not in favor of mandatory prayer in school or of using public funds to finance religious education.

- Jimmy Carter

topic: Christian, Religious, Prayer, Prayer In School, Church And State

It appears that the Soviets are now going to allow prayer in school. One wonders how soon the United States will catch up.

- Jeff Cooper

topic: Prayer, School, United States, Prayer In School

I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church.

- J. Michael Straczynski

topic: Prayer, Teaching, School, Prayer In School, Darwinism

Some want prayer in school, some want condoms. Printing prayers on condoms satisfies nobody.

- Marshall Fritz

topic: Prayer, School, Want, Prayer In School

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: 'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 414

topic: Dream, Spiritual, Prayer, Praying To God, Prayer Changes Things

This is a lttle prayer dedicated to the separation of church and state. I guess if they are going to force those kids to pray in schools they might as well have a nice prayer like this: Our Father who art in heaven, and to the republic for which it stands, thy kingdom come, one nation indivisible as in heaven, give us this day as we forgive those who so proudly we hail. Crown thy good into temptation but deliver us from the twilight's last gleaming. Amen and Awomen.

- George Carlin

topic: Art, Prayer, Father, Kingdom Come, Prayer In School

And I'll tell you another thing, you won't find any candidate that supports prayer in school and gay marriage. For that reason alone, people should vote for an independent-thinking person.

- Kinky Friedman

topic: Prayer, School, Independent, Independent Thinking, Prayer In School

I'm anticlerical, not antireligion. If somebody believes there is God, I'm not interested in trying to persuade that person there is no intelligent design to the universe. Where I become interested and wake up is about the temporal power of religion, things like prayer in schools, or Catholic-secular hospital mergers.

- Katha Pollitt

topic: Prayer, Believe, School, Intelligent Design, Prayer In School