Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
Context: They'll say our bus'ness, to reform
The Church and State, is but a worm;
For to subscribe, unsight, unseen,
To an unknown Church-discipline,
What is it else, but before-hand
T'engage, and after understand?
For when we swore to carry on
The present Reformation,
According to the purest mode
Of Churches best reformed abroad,
What did we else, but make a vow
To do we know not what, nor how?
Walter E. Williams (1936) American economist, commentator, and academic
2010s, American Contempt for Liberty (2015)
Context: What our nation needs is a separation of “business and state” as it has a separation of “church and state.” That would mean crony capitalism and crony socialism could not survive.
“If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors."”
Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965) American judge
McCollum v. Board of Education, 333 U.S. 203, 232 (1948).
Judicial opinions
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician
On Ranke's History of the Popes (1840)
“It doesn’t say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.”
Sean Hannity (1961) American television host, conservative political commentator
Hannity and Colmes (25 August 2003), as quoted in "The Document Sean Hannity Doesn't Want You To Read" at American Progress (16 June 2004) http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/kfiles/b91585.html
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing
Letter quoted in Florence Nightingale in Rome : Letters Written by Florence Nightingale in Rome in the Winter of 1847-1848 (1981), edited by Mary Keele, and Suggestions for Thought : Selections and Commentaries (1994), edited by Michael D. Calabria and Janet A. MacRae, p. xiv
David Miscavige (1960) leader of the Church of Scientology
[Laurie, Goodstein, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/us/07scientology.html, Defectors Say Church of Scientology Hides Abuse, The New York Times, The New York Times Company, A1, March 6, 2010, 2010-07-03].
About
John Ribat (1957) cardinal
Source: Cardinal Ribat of PNG: putting the peripheries at the centre http://www.archivioradiovaticana.va/storico/2016/11/18/cardinal_ribat_of_png_putting_the_peripheries_at_the_centre/en-1273170 (2016)
“Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state.”
James K. Polk (1795–1849) American politician, 11th President of the United States (in office from 1845 to 1849)
Diary entry (14 October 1846).
Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) English poet
Magna Moralia XLIX, p. 201.
The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)
