It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians. Not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. – Patrick Henry
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. – John Quincy Adams
Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers. – John Jay (1st Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court)
Everyone appointed to public office must say: "I do profess faith in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ His only Son, and in the Holy Ghost; One God and blessed forevermore; and I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration. – Delaware Constitution 1776
Of all the habits and dispositions, which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars. – George Washington (Farewell Address)
By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion and all denominations of Christian are placed upon the same equal footing. – U.S. Supreme Court 1796 (Ruggles v. Winemiller)
Had the people, during the revolution, had any suspicion of any attempt to war against Christianity, that revolution would have been strangled in its cradle... At the time of the adoption of the constitution and the amendments; the universal sentiment was that Christianity should be encouraged, not any one sect... In this age, there can be no substitution for Christianity... That was the religion of the founders of the republic and they expected it to remain the religion of their descendants... The great vital and conservative element in our system is the belief of our people in the pure doctrines and divine truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ.– House Judiciary Committee March 27, 1854
He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of Christianity; will change the face of the world. – Benjamin Franklin
Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian. – U.S. Supreme Court 1892 (Church of Holy Trinity v. U.S.)
Why may not the Bible and especially the New Testament, be read and taught as a divine revelation in the schools? Where can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament? – U.S. Supreme Court 1844 (Vidal v. Girard)
We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern o urselves according to the Ten Commandments of God. - James Madison
What ever strikes at the root of Christianity tends manifestly to the dissolution of civil government. – U.S. Supreme Court 1811 (People v. Ruggles)
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in the exclusion of religious principle. - George Washington
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God; that he owes account to none other for his worship; that the legislative powers of the government research actions only and not opinions– I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" thus building a wall of separation between church and state. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of the sentiments which tend to restore man to all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties. – Thomas Jefferson: Letter to Danberry Baptist Association 8 id 112 Jan. 21, 1802
