American founding fathers Quote by George Washington

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

Religion gets in the way of morality.

— Kim Campbell

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it.

— Christopher Hitchens

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— George Washington

Morality is but the vestibule of religion.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Morality does not depend on religion.

— John Ruskin

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion.

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Janice T. Connell