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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. Every American has the constitutional right not to be taxed or have his tax money expended for the establishment of religion. For too long the issue of government aid to church related organizations has been a divisive force in our society and in the Congress. It has erected communication barriers among our religions and fostered intolerance.

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?

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I've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them, nothing.

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

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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.

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

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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