It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind. — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ? — George Washington Copy Share Image
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion -… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. — George Washington Copy Share Image
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . . . .… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue,… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so… — Charles Carroll of Carrollton Copy Share Image
Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars. — George Washington Copy Share Image
The propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments. — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth —… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
