The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them. — George Mason Copy Share Image
The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights… — John Adams Copy Share Image
A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I believe ... that the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life, respecting its conduct… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity. — John Adams Copy Share Image
The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The people have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge - I… — John Adams 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
It is contrary to the principles of reason and justice that any should be compelled to contribute to the maintenance of a… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. We have, therefore, to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. — George Washington Copy Share Image
[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years? — John Adams Copy Share Image
No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order... — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, creator of the Universe. That he governs it by his Providence. That he… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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