[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. — James Madison 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
No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever. — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
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
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
Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual… Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in… — John Adams Copy Share Image
When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution of your country and the government established under it. Leave evils which exist in some… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Militias, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms. [...] To preserve liberty… — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
. . . Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange believe that it is the word… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure… — James Madison 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
The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds,… — John Adams 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
The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a great… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It is not to be understood that I am with him (Jesus Christ) in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist; he… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I can't tell Black people to fight a war that is Israel's war. What kind of leader will you be, or should… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society. One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will… — George Washington Copy Share Image
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom,… — John 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
The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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