"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
-John Adams
"Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe."
-James Madison
"And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever."
-Thomas Jefferson
"To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness, which mankind now enjoys...Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrow, our present republican form of government-and all blessings which flow from them-must fall with them."
-Jedidiah Morse, "The Father of American Geography"
"At the time of the adoption of the Constitution and the amendments, the universal sentiment was that Christianity should be encouraged...in this age there can be no substitute for Christianity....That was the religion of the founders of the republic and they expected it to remain the religion of their descendants."
-House Judiciary Committee Report, March 27, 1854
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