Bible Quote by Benjamin Rush

We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the…

— Benjamin Rush

“The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and…

— Benjamin Rush

All the distinctive features and superiority of our republican institutions are derived from the teachings of Scripture.

— Edward Everett

[T]he Christian religion, in its purity, is the basis, or rather the source of all genuine freedom in government. . . . and I…

— Noah Webster

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

— Thomas Jefferson

The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion.

— Thomas Jefferson

There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue and knowledge…

— Benjamin Rush

It is contended by many that ours is a Christian government, founded upon the Bible, and that all who look upon the book as…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Every civil government is based upon some religion or philosophy of life. Education in a nation will propagate the religion of that nation. In…

— Noah Webster

“In this age, there is no substitute for Christianity. That was the religion of the founders of the republic, and they expected it to…

— United States House Judiciary Committee of Congress 1854

To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys.... Whenever the…

— Jedidiah Morse

It is now an article of absolute faith among Republicans that 'the government' is an entity separate from 'the American people,' which they say…

— Charlie Pierce