I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used for the purpose of advancing any particular creed; and therefore that the public schools shall be nonsectarian and no public moneys appropriated for sectarian schools.


Americanism (ed. 1926)

Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used for the purpose of advancing...

I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used for the purpose of advancing...

I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used for the purpose of advancing...

I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used for the purpose of advancing...