Believer Quote by Sarah Palin

The Founding Fathers believed that faith in God was the key to our being a good people and America's becoming a great nation.

— Ronald Reagan

“[The Founding Fathers] were not advocates for a monolithic notion of "God and Country," as promoters of a Christian America would now have us…

— Brooke Allen

“The American tradition of separation of church and state grew directly from the freethinking of the Founders. After political independence, they considered independence of…

— Joshua Wolf Shenk

Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.

— Thomas Jefferson

“...the founders of our nation were nearly all Infidels, and that of the presidents who had thus far been elected { George Washington ,…

— Bird Wilson

“The phrase ‘separation of church and state,’ which appears in no founding document (only in a letter written by Thomas Jefferson), means that America…

— Dennis Prager

The Founding Fathers believed devoutly that there was a God and that the unalienable rights of man were rooted - not in the state,…

— Tom C. Clark

For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's…

— Gary Bauer

It is false to suggest that Thomas Jefferson or any other Founding Father believed in a legal barrier to God in the public square.

— Newt Gingrich

“We need to allow God to be God and leave the how, when, and why in His hands. Faith”

— Cherie Hill

“These facts about today’s political climate in the United States, and what they imply, would have horrified Jefferson, Washington, Madison, Adams and all their…

— Richard Dawkins

the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from…

— Anna Quindlen