A Stitch in Haste

....there is an equal and opposite bad Scalia sentence:

Thomas Jefferson and the other founding fathers never intended to eliminate religion from government.

That remark made, incidentally, in his speech accepting the "Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law." Go figure.

The truth shall set you free:

I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline or exercises. ... I do not believe it is for the interest of religion to invite the civil magistrate to direct its exercises, its discipline, its doctrines, nor of the religious societies that the general government should be invested with the power of effecting any uniformity of time or matter among them.

Lots more here (PDF - 6 pages).

Another quick Scalia v. Jefferson:

Scalia: "With respect to public acknowledgment of religious belief, it is entirely clear from our Nation's historical practices that the Establishment Clause permits this disregard of polytheists and believers in unconcerned deities, just as it permits the disregard of devout atheists." (McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky, 545 U.S. 844 (2005) (Scalia, J., dissenting).

Jefferson: "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."

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If you need a tiebreaker, Sally Kern is always available:

Kern: "Matter of fact, studies show, that no society that has totally embraced homosexuality has lasted more than, you know, a few decades."

Jefferson: "History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance, of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes."

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The "good Scalia sentence," recall, was here..