The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and nuts; with God reduced to the role of cramped advocate of current national policy. Surely the pages of history are replete and the examples in many a foreign country convincing that this kind of church-state union -- whatever the original motives, or however noble the original purposes -- winds up with a state that is less than stable and a church that is less than sanctified, and with the poor still hungry.
¶ Speech, Kansas City (Aug. 1956)
