• The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community. (from Lynch v. Donnelly, concurring opinion, 1984)
• It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
• A moment of silence is not inherently religious.
• It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
• Senator Barry Goldwater, in response to Jerry Falwell's statement that "good Christians" should oppose Sandra Day O'Connor's nomination to the Supreme Court: "I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell's ass."
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Quote collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis. Each quotation page in this collection and the entire collection © Jone Johnson Lewis 1997-2009. This is an informal collection assembled over many years. I regret that I am not be able to provide the original source if it is not listed with the quote.
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Jone Johnson Lewis. "Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes." About Women's History. URL: http://womenshistory.about.com/od/quotes/a/s_d_oconnor.htm . Date accessed: (today). (More on how to cite online sources including this page)
