Bases Quote by Noah Webster

The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe, which serve to support tyrannical governments, are not the Christian religion, but abuses and corruptions of it. The religion…

— Noah Webster

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

Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must…

— Leo Tolstoy

Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in…

— John Adams

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

I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism. The spirit is opposed, not only to the splendor, but even to the…

— Benjamin Rush

No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the…

— Noah Webster

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and…

— George Washington

The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.

— Anonymous

By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion... .

— Samuel Chase

The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions.... We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping the affairs…

— Barry Goldwater

Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the Christian religion,…

— Lewis Cass