America Quote by Noah Webster

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.

— Ginny Brown-Waite

The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity…

— Benjamin Rush

It might be said that religious freedom in the American sense, incorporating the separation of church and state, has been the pivotal concept of…

— Joseph Leon Blau

“Religion--invaluable in America's founding, forming and flowering--deserves a place in the schools. Indeed, it had that place for almost 200 years. A healthy country…

— Charles Krauthammer

Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.

— Edmund Burke

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Institutional Christianity has had clear secular benefits to American life for hundreds of years. It's played both a prophetic role in terms of generating…

— Ross Douthat

We are a people of many races, many faiths, creeds, and religions. I do not think that the men who made the Constitution forbade…

— John Dewey

For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate. But when modern…

— Lord Acton

America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious…

— Billy Graham

“Whether it was celebrated or lamented, the Constitution was universally seen as a secular document establishing a civil frame of government. In essence, few…

— Steven K. Green

“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