American founding fathers Quote by Samuel Adams

[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

— Samuel Adams

The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.

— Thomas Paine

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

— Thomas Jefferson

The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil…

— Thomas Jefferson

When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care…

— Benjamin Franklin

We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and obedience to…

— Thomas Jefferson

“As the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, — as it has in itself no…

— Anonymous

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

— James Madison

Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral.

— Joseph Farah

Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in…

— Noah Webster

There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to…

— John Rawls

Every man is responsible for defending every woman and every child. When the male no longer takes this role, when he no longer has…

— James Williams