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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's Popular 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

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

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

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people.

- Sam Ervin

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

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

When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.

- Sam Ervin

I believe in a wall between church and state so high that no one can climb over it.

- Sam Ervin

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, becau…

- Sam Ervin