List of Sam Ervin Quotes

Government Is Contemptuous Of True Religion When It Confiscates The Taxes Of Caesar To Finance The Things Of God.

Polygraph Tests Are 20th-century Witchcraft.

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.

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.

The Supreme Court Has Made God Unconstitutional.

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.

Humor Makes Our Heavy Burdens Light And Smoothes The Rough Spots In Our Pathways.

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.

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.

I Believe In A Wall Between Church And State So High That No One Can Climb Over It.

When Religion Controls Government, Political Liberty Dies; And When Government Controls Religion, Religious Liberty Perishes.

I've Always Been Worried About People Who Are Willing To Work For Nothing. Sometimes That's All You Get From Them, Nothing.