Quotes about State
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
— Aristotle
When the church joined with the state, it tended to wield power rather than dispense grace.
— Philip Yancey
No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers.
— Mike Huckabee
When economic power desires to be left alone it uses the philosophy of laissez faire to discourage political restraint upon economic freedom. When it wants to make use of the police power of the state to subdue rebellions and discontent in the ranks of its helots, it justifies the use of political coercion and the resulting suppression of liberties by insisting that peace is more precious than freedom and that its only desire is social peace.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.
— Tony Campolo
The Church must run the risk of dilution rather than leave the state to the cold light of reason, unwarmed by tenderness.
— Martin Luther
The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Church and State are both rent, by the tugging of the demonic and the Divine
— Martin Luther
We often charge Men, both in Church and State, with changing their Principles; but the Charge is too hasty; for no Man ever did, or can change his Principles, but by a Birth from above.
— William Law
The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The separation of church and state is a suburban, not an urban, issue.
— Tony Evans
I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages.
— Tony Campolo