[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular…

'Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to…

— George Washington

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.

— 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

It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.

— Richard Henry Lee

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a…

— John Quincy Adams

It is alleged by men of loose principles , or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important…

— Noah Webster

“Anyone who thinks about it can see that for human beings the teaching and following of morality is something necessary.”

— Philippa Foot

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have…

— Arthur C. Clarke

It should be quite clear that it is possible for unpleasant people who are small in various ways other than in their artistic genius…

— Fred Kaplan

It is alleged by men of loose principles, or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important qualifications…

— Noah Webster

Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.

— George Washington

... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

— George Washington

In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.

— George Washington

The propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself…

— George Washington