Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that…

“& experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”

— Janice T. Connell

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

— George Washington

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national…

— George Washington

Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths,…

— George Washington

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim tribute…

— George Washington

The history of our nation is intertwined with a certain religious tradition, and that the First Amendment was not intended to result in the…

— William Bennett

The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families.

— John Adams

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for…

— George Bernard Shaw

The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation. It…

— Adolf Hitler

“Another aspect of behavior directly impacted by the removal of religious principles was morality. Recall that both George Washington and Fisher Ames had warned…

— David Barton

“...and then I remembered this basic religious principle that God isn't there to take away our suffering or our pain but to fill it…

— Anonymous

Holiness is religious principle put into motion. It is the love of God sent forth into circulation, on the feet, and with the hands…

— Frederic Dan Huntington

If a religious principle is worth anything, it applies to a million of human beings as truly as to one; and the difficulty of…

— Henry Parry Liddon

To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all…

— George Ripley

Lastly, our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any other…

— Daniel Webster