The foundations of national morality must be laid in…

I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our business is…

— Benjamin Rush

Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in…

— John Adams

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

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

— George Washington

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle

— 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

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

— Janice T. Connell

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

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

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

It already appears, that there must be in every society of men superiors and inferiors, because God has laid in the constitution and course…

— John Adams

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.

— John Adams

The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality.

— George Washington

Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and…

— Charles Carroll of Carrollton