A SMALL SAMPLING OF QUOTES FROM THE FOUNDERS AND
OTHER STATESMEN

“Religion and Morality are the essential pillars of civil society.” –George Washington 1797 #1

"Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. . . . Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge." -George Washington #2

”Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great Pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and Citizens. The mere Politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked where is the security for prosperity, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in the Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on the minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.” -George Washington, in his farewell address. #3

“The propitious (favorable) smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.” -George Washington #4

“The hand of Providence has been so conspicuous in all this (the course of the war) that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more wicked that has not gratitude to acknowledge his obligations; but it will be time enough for me to turn Preacher when my present appointment ceases.” -George Washington #5

“The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man, will endeavor so to live, and act, as becomes a Christian Soldier defending the dearest Rights and Liberties of his country.” -George Washington, quoted later again by Abraham Lincoln. #6

“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” -John Adams #7

“The Christian religion is, above all the Religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of Wisdom, Virtue, Equity, and Humanity… it is Resignation to God, it is Goodness itself to Man.” -John Adams #8

“The idea of infidelity [a disbelief in the inspiration of the Scriptures or the divine origin of Christianity #9] cannot be treated with too much resentment or too much horror. The man who can think of it with patience is a traitor in his heart and ought to be execrated [denounced] as one who adds the deepest hypocrisy to the blackest treason.” -John Adams #10

"Religion is “deemed in other countries incompatible with good government and yet proved by our experience to be its best support.” –Thomas Jefferson #11

"A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sin and suffering." -Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:40 #12

“In extracting the pure principles which Jesus taught, we should have to strip off the artificial vestments, in which they have been muffled … there will be found remaining the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man.” –Thomas Jefferson #13

“The precepts of philosophy and of the Hebrew code, laid hold of actions only. Jesus pushed his scrutinizes into the heart of man, erected his tribunal in the regions of his thoughts, and purified the waters at the fountain head.” -Thomas Jefferson #14

“My views … are the result of a life of inquiry and reflection, and very different from the anti-christian system imputed to me by those who know nothing of my opinions. To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed, opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others...” -Thomas Jefferson #15

“I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man…” -Thomas Jefferson #16

“The Christian Religion, when divested of the rags in which they (the clergy) have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of its benevolent institutor, is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science, and the freest expansion of the human mind.” –Thomas Jefferson, 1801 #17

“A bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district – all studied and appreciated as they merit – are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty.” -Benjamin Franklin #18

“Here is my creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render to Him is in doing good to His other Children. That the soul of Man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another Life respecting its conduct in this. These I take to be the fundamental points in all sound Religion, and I regard them as you do in whatever Sect I meet with them. As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the System of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, is the best the World ever saw, or is likely to see.” -Benjamin Franklin #19

“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” –Benjamin Franklin 1787 #20

“I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth – that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?” -Benjamin Franklin, speaking at the 1787 Continental Congress #21

“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued: but when they lose their virtue they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader...If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the People, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security.” –Samuel Adams 1779 #22

“I have a thorough contempt for all men...who appear to be the irreclaimable enemies of religion.” -Samuel Adams #23

“The rising greatness of our country...is greatly tarnished by the general prevalence of deism which, with me, is but another name for vice and depravity...I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of their number; and indeed that some good people think I am no Christian. This thought gives me much more pain than the appellation of Tory [being called a traitor], because I think religion of infinitely higher importance than politics...[B]eing a Christian...is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.” -Patrick Henry #24

“Shun, as a contagious pestilence, . . . those especially whom you perceive to be infected with the principles of infidelity or [who are] enemies to the power of religion.#25 Whoever is an avowed enemy of God, I scruple not to call him an enemy to his country.” -John Witherspoon, Signer of the Declaration of Independence #26

“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Where, say some, is the king of America? I’ll tell you, friend, He reigns above.” -Thomas Paine #27

“The attempt by the rulers of a nation [France] to destroy all religious opinion and to pervert a whole people to atheism is a phenomenon of profligacy [act of moral depravity]...[T]o establish atheism on the ruins of Christianity [is] to deprive mankind of its best consolations and most animating hopes and to make a gloomy desert of the universe.” -Alexander Hamilton #28

"Why should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The reverence for the Sacred Book that is thus early impressed lasts long; and probably if not impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind." –Fisher Ames, Author of the House Language for the First Amendment! #29

"Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion and the duties of man towards God." –Gouverneur Morris, most frequent speaker at the Constitutional Convention, Penman and Signer of The Constitution! #30

“The most important of all lessons [from the Scriptures] is the denunciation of ruin to every State that rejects the precepts of religion.” -Gouverneur Morris, Penman and Signer of the Constitution #31

“I anticipate nothing but suffering to the human race while the present systems of paganism, deism, and atheism prevail in the world.” -Benjamin Rush, Signer of the Declaration of Independence #32

"The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.#33 Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind." -Dr. Benjamin Rush, Signer of Declaration, founder of Bible Society, Philosophical Society, Academy of Arts and Sciences, Abolitionist Society, Father of Modern Medicine, Father of Public Schools. #34

“That book, Sir, (the Bible) is the Rock on which our Republic rests.” –President Andrew Jackson, 1845 #35

"In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government, ought to be instructed...No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people." –Noah Webster #36

"In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book." –Abraham Lincoln, Reply to Loyal Colored People of Baltimore upon Presentation of a Bible (September 7, 1864). #37

“It is fit and becoming in all people, at all times, to acknowledge and revere the Supreme Government of God; to bow in humble submission to his chastisement; to confess and deplore their sins and transgressions in the full convictions that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; and to pray, with all fervency and contrition, for the pardon of their past offenses, and for a blessing upon their present and prospective action.” –Abraham Lincoln, after declaring a National Day of Prayer and Fasting, Sept 26, 1861 #38

“The truth announced in the Holy Scripture, and proven by all history (is) that, ‘Those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.’ …we have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us to then humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins and pray for clemency and forgiveness.” -Abraham Lincoln #39

”I do not think I could, myself, be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at religion.” -Abraham Lincoln #40

“I do believe in Almighty God! And I believe also in the Bible.” –President Andrew Johnson #41

“Let us look forward to the time when we can take the flag of our country and nail it below the Cross, and there let it wave as it waved in the olden times, and let us gather around it and inscribed for our motto: ‘Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever,’ and exclaim, ‘Christ first, our country next!’” -President Andrew Johnson #42

“All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity to public trust, and in the best type of citizenship. Those who manage the affairs of government are by this means reminded that the law of God demands that they should be courageously true to the interests of the people, and that the Ruler of the universe will require of them a strict account of their stewardship. The teachings of both human and Divine law thus merging into one word, duty, form the only union of Church and state that a civil and religious government can recognize. ” -President Grover Cleveland #43

“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.” -Theodore Roosevelt #44

“Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally impossible for us to figure ourselves what that life would be if these standards were removed. We would lose almost all the standards by which we now judge both public and private morals; all the standards towards which we, with more or less resolution, strive to raise ourselves.” -Theodore Roosevelt #45

“We cannot read the history of our rise and development as nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic … (W)here we have been the truest and most consistent in obeying its precepts, we have attained the greatest measure of contentment and prosperity.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1935 #46

“As Commander-in-Chief, I take pleasure in commending the reading of the Bible to all who serve in the armed forces of the United States. Throughout the centuries men of many faiths and diverse origins have found in the Sacred Book words of wisdom, counsel and inspiration. It is a fountain of strength and now, as always, an aid in attaining the highest aspirations of the human soul.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1941 #47

“Never forget, Americans, that yours is a spiritual country. Yes, I know you’re a practical people. Like other, I’ve marveled at your factories, your skyscrapers, and your arsenals. But underlying everything else is the fact that America began as a God-loving, God-fearing, God-worshipping people.” -General Romulo of the Philippines #48

“Much has been written in recent years … to “a wall of separation between church and State.” … (It) has received so much attention that one would almost think at times that it is to be found somewhere in our Constitution.” -Judge Gallagher, in Baer v. Kolmorgen (1958), in complaint about its recent use in so many court cases. #49

“I think that the Court’s task, in this as in all areas of constitutional adjudication, is not responsibly aided by the uncritical invocation of metaphors like the “wall of separation,” a phrase nowhere to be found in the Constitution.” –Justice Potter Stewart #50

"But the greatest injury of the 'wall' notion is its mischievous diversion of judges from the actual intentions of the drafters of the Bill of Rights … The 'wall of separation between church and State' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned." –Recent Chief Justice William Rehnquist (who passed away in 2005) #51

1) Washington, Writings (1940), Vol. XXXV, p. 416, to the Clergy of Different Denominations Residing in and Near the City of Philadelphia, on March 3, 1797. [return to quotes]

2) George Washington, Address of George Washington, President of the United States . . . Preparatory to His Declination (Baltimore: George and Henry S. Keatinge, 1796), pp. 22-23. [return to quotes]

3) September 19, 1796, in his farewell address. James D. Richardson, A Compilation of Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897 (Published by Authority of Congress, 1899), Vol. 1, p. 220. . David Barton, The Myth of Separation (Aledo, TX: WallBuilder Press, 1991), pp. 115-116, 124. John C. Fitzpatrick, ed., The Writings of George Washington, Vol. 35(Washington, D.C: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1940), p. 229. Tim LaHaye, Faith of Our Founding Fathers (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Publishers, Inc., 1987), pp. 91, 105-106. John F. Schroeder, ed., Maxims of Washington (Mt. Vernon Ladies Association, 1942), pp. 286-287. Richard D. Heffner, A Documentary History of the United States (New York: The New American Library of World Literature, Inc., 1961), pp. 60-67. [return to quotes]

4) April 30, 1789, President George Washington’s Inaugural Address, James D. Richardson, A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897 (Published by Authority of Congress, 1899) Vol. 1, pp. 52-53. . David Barton, The Myth of Separation (Aledo, TX: WallBuilder Press, 1991), p. 113. Also, Gary DeMar, God and Government, a Biblical and Historical Study (Atlanta, GA: American Vision Press, 1984) p. 127-128. John F. Schroeder, ed., Maxims of Washington (Mt. Vernon: Mt. Vernon Ladies Association, 1942). Pp. 287-288. Tim LaHaye, Faith of Our Founding Fathers (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Publishers, Inc., 1987), pp. 63, 64, 107. “Our Christian Heritage”, Letter from Plymouth Rock (Marlborough, NH: The Plymouth Rock Foundation), p. 4. Henry Steele Commager, ed., Documents of American History (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1973), p. 151. Pat Robertson, America’s Dates with Destiny (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1986), p. 104. [return to quotes]

5) George Washington, The Writings of George Washington, Jared Sparks, editor (Boston: American Stationers’ Company, 1838), Vol. VI, p. 36, to Brigadier General Nelson on August 20, 1778. [return to quotes]

6) July 9, 1776, in his first general order to his troops. John C. Fitzpatrick, ed., The Writings of Washington (Washington, D.C: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1932), Vol. V, p. 245. Abraham Lincoln quoted this order of Washington’s on November 15, 1862, to have his troops maintain regular Sabbath observances. Abraham Lincoln, Letters and Addresses and Abraham Lincoln (NY: Unit Book Publishing Co., 1907), p. 261. David Barton, The Myth of Separation (Aledo, TX: WallBuilder Press, 1991), p. 98. John F. Schroeder, ed., Maxims of Washington (Mt. Vernon Ladies Association, 1942), p. 299. Tim LaHaye, Faith of Our Founding Fathers (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Publishers, Inc., 1987), p. 108. [return to quotes]

7) October 11, 1798, in his address as President to the Military. Charles Francis Adams, ed., The Works of John Adams – Second President of the United States (Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., 1854) Vol. IX, p. 229. David Barton, The Myth of Separation (Aledo, TX: WallBuilder Press, 1991), p. 123. Pat Robertson, America’s Dates with Destiny (Nashville, TN: 1986), pp. 93-95. Tim LaHaye, Faith of Our Founding Fathers (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Publishers, Inc., 1987), p. 194. [return to quotes]

8) July 26, 1796, writing in his diary a disapproval of Thomas Paine’s beliefs. L.H. Butterfield, ed., The Diary and Autobiography of John Adams (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1962), 3: 233,234. Christopher Collier, Roger Sherman’s Connecticut (Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1971), p. 185. David Barton, The Myth of Separation (Aledo, TX: WallBuilder Press, 1991), p. 123. Gary DeMar, The Untold Story (Atlanta, GA: American Vision, Inc., 1993), p. 95. [return to quotes]

9) Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828), s.v. “infidelity.” [return to quotes]

10) John Adams, The Papers of John Adams, Robert J. Taylor, editor (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1977), Vol. VI, p. 348, to James Warren on August 4, 1778. [return to quotes]

11) Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Albert E. Bergh, editor (Washington D.C.: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1904), Vol. XVI, p.291, to Captain John Thomas on November 18, 1807. [return to quotes]

12) Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Memorial Edition (Washington, D.C.: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1904) Vol. XV, p. 40, to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. [return to quotes]

13) 1813, in a letter to John Adams. Thomas Jefferson, Writings, Vol. XIII, p. 389. Douglas Lurton, “Foreword,” The Jefferson Bible (Cleveland, OH: The Word Publishing Company, 1942), p. ix. Burton Stevenson, The Home Book of Quotations—Classical and Modern (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1967), p. 266. Gary DeMar, The Untold Story (Atlanta, GA: American Vision, Inc., 1993), p. 91. [return to quotes]

14) Thomas Jefferson, Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, editor (Boston: Gray and Bowen, 1830), Vol. III, p. 509, to Benjamin Rush on April 21, 1803, Jefferson’s “Syllabus of an Estimate of the Merit of the Doctrines of Jesus, Compared with Those of Others.” See also William Linn, The Life of Thomas Jefferson (Ithaca, New York: Mack & Andrus, 1834), p. 265. [return to quotes]

15) April 21, 1803, in a letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush. Writings, Vol. X, p. 379. Burton Stevenson, The Home Book of Quotations—Classical & Modern (New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1967), pp. 265-266. Barnes Mayo, ed., Jefferson Himself--the personal narrative of a many-sided American (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942) pp. 231, 235. Catherine Millard, The Rewriting of America’s History (Camp Hill, PA: Horizon House Publishers, 1991), p. 92. Library of American Literature, Vol. III, p. 277. Stephen Abbott Northrop, D.D., A Cloud of Witnesses (Portland, OR: American Heritage Ministries, 1987), p. 252. [return to quotes]

16) November 4, 1820, in a letter to Jared Sparks. Compiled for Senator A. Willis Robertson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson (Williamsburg, VA: The Williamsburg Foundation, April 27, 1960) Catherine Millard, The Rewriting of America’s History (Camp Hill, PA: Horizon House Publishers, 1991), p. 96. [return to quotes]

17) March 23, 1801, in a letter from Washington, D.C., to Moses Robinson. Barnes Mayo, ed., Jefferson Himself--the personal narrative of a many-sided American (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942), p. 231. Catherine Millard, The Rewriting of America’s History (Camp Hill, PA: Horizon House Publishers, 1991), p. 92. [return to quotes]

18) Tryon Edwards, D.D., The New Dictionary of Thought—A Cyclopedia of Quotations (Garden City, NY: Hanover House, 1852, The Standard Book Company, 1963), p. 49. [return to quotes]

19) March 9, 1790, in a letter to Ezra Stiles, President of Yale University. John Bigelow, Complete Words of Benjamin Franklin. Stephen Abbott Northrop, D.D., A Cloud of Witnesses (Portland, OR: American Heritage Ministries, 1987), p. 159. Tryon Edwards, D.D., The New Dictionary of thoughts—A Cyclopedia of Quotations (Garden City, NY: Hanover House, 1852, The Standard Book Company, 1963), p. 91. Albert Henry Smyth, ed., The Writings of Benjamin Franklin (New York: MacMillan, 1905-7), Vol. 10, p. 84. Tim LaHaye, Faith of Our Founding Fathers (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Publishers, Inc., 1987), p. 116. Raymond A St. John, American Literature for Christian Schools (Greenville, SC: Bob Jones University Press, Ince., 1979), p. 131. [return to quotes]

21) James Madison, The Papers of James Madison, Henry D. Gilpin, editor (Washington: Langtree and O’Sullivan, 1840), Vol. II, pp. 984-986, June 28, 1787. [return to quotes]

22) Stephen K. McDowell and Mark A. Beliles, America’ Providential History (Charlottesville, VA: Providence Press, 1988), p. 148. David Barton, The Myth of Separation (Aledo, TX: WallBuilder Press, 1991), pp. 94, 116. Verna M Hall, comp., Christian History of the Constitution of the United States of America (San Francisco: Foundation of American Christian Education, 1976), p. 4. Peter Marshall and David Manuel, The Glory of America (Bloomington, MN: Garborg’s Heart’N Home, Inc., 1991), 9.27. [return to quotes]

23) Samuel Adams, The Writings of Samuel Adams, Harry Alonzo Cushing, editor (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1906), Vol. II, p. 381, to William Checkley on December 14, 1772. [return to quotes]

24) S. G. Arnold, The Life of Patrick Henry of Virginia (Auburn and Buffalo: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1854), pp. 249-250. [return to quotes]

25) Witherspoon, The Works of the Reverend John Witherspoon (Philadelphia: William W. Woodward, 1802), Vol. VI, p. 13, from “An Address to the Senior Class at Princeton College,” September 23, 1775. [return to quotes]

26) Witherspoon, The Works of the Reverend John Witherspoon (Philadelphia: William W. Woodward, 1802), Vol. III, p. 42, “The Dominion of Providence Over the Passions of Men,” May 17, 1776. [return to quotes]

27) December 23, 1776. The American Crisis.“Common Sense” Thomas Paine –1776 (Reston, VA: Intercessors for America, July/August 1993), Vol. 20, No. 7/8, p. 1. [return to quotes]

28) Alexander Hamilton, The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, Harold C. Syrett, editor (New York: Columbia University Press, 1979), Vol. XXI, pp. 402-404, “The Stand No. III,” New York, April 7, 1798. [return to quotes]

29) Fisher Ames, Works of Fisher Ames (Boston: T. B. Wait & Co., 1809), pp. 134-135. [return to quotes]

30) Jared Sparks, The Life of Governeur Morris (Boston: Gray and Bowen, 1832), Vol. III, p. 483, from his “Notes on the Form of a Constitution for France.” [return to quotes]

31) Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1821 (New York: E. Bliss and E. White, 1821), p. 34, from “An Inaugural Discourse Delivered Before the New York Historical Society by the Honorable Gouverneur Morris on September 4, 1816.” [return to quotes]

32) Benjamin Rush, Letters of Benjamin Rush, L. H. Butterfield, editor (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1951), Vol. II,p. 799, to Noah Webster on July 20, 1798. [return to quotes]

33) Benjamin Rush, Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical (Philadelphia: Thomas and Samuel F. Bradford, 1798), p. 8, “On the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic.” [return to quotes]

34) Benjamin Rush, Letters of Benjamin Rush, L. H. Butterfield, editor (Princeton, New Jersey: American Philosophical Society, 1951), Vol. I, p. 294, to John Armstrong on March 19, 1783; see also James Henry Morgan, Dickinson College: The History of One Hundred and Fifty Years 1783-1933 (Carlisle, PA: Dickinson College, 1933), p. 11. [return to quotes]

35) Alfred Armand Montapert, Distilled Wisdom (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1965) p. 36. Also Henry Halley, Halley’s Bible Handbook, (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1927, 1965), p. 18. “Our Christian Heritage”, Letter from Plymouth Rock (Marlborough, NH: The Plymouth Rock Foundation), p. 5. George Sivan, The Bible and Civilization (New York: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., 1973), p. 178. Gary DeMar, The Untold Story (Atlanta, GA: American Vision, Inc., 1993), p. 59. [return to quotes]

36) Noah Webster, A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects (New York: Webster and Clark, 1843), p. 291, from his “Reply to a Letter of David McClure on the Subject of the Proper Course of Study in the Girard College, Philadelphia. New Haven, October 25, 1836.” [return to quotes]

37) The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume VII, "Reply to Loyal Colored People of Baltimore upon Presentation of a Bible" (September 7, 1864), p. 542. [return to quotes]

38) July, 1861, in declaring the fourth Thursday in September as a national day of prayer. Trueblood, Lincoln, p. 86. Peter Marshall and David Manuel, The Glory of America (Bloomington, MN: Garborg’s Heart’ N Home, Inc., 1991), 8.12. [return to quotes]

39) March 30, 1863. James D. Richardson, A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897 (Published by Authority of Congress, 1899), vol. VI, p. 164. Gary DeMar, God and Government, A Biblical and Historical Study (Atlanta, GA: American Vision Press, 1984), p. 128-29. Also David Barton, The Myth of Separation (Aledo, TX: WallBuilder Press, 1991), p. 259. Also Benjamin Weiss, God in American History: A Documentation of America’s Religious Heritage (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1966), p. 92. Willard Cantelon, Money Master of the World (Plainfield, NJ: Logos International, 1976), p. 120. “Our Christian Heritage,” Letter from Plymouth Rock (Marlborough, NH: The Plymouth Rock Foundation), p. 6. Gary Demar, The Untold Story (Atlanta, GA: American Vision, Inc., 1993), pp. 53, 99. [return to quotes]

40) August 15, 1846, in a public statement published in the Illinois Gazette during his race for the Congressional Seat of the Seventh District of Illinois. Benjamin P. Thomas, Abraham Lincoln (New York: Knopf, 1953), pp. 108-109. Mark A. Knoll, The Puzzling Faith of Abraham Lincoln (Carol Streams, IL: Christian History), Vol. XL, No. 1, Issue 33, p. 14. Gary DeMar, The Untold Story (Atlanta, GA: American Vision, Inc., 1993), p. 101.Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 1. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953. [return to quotes]

41) John Savage, The Life and Public Services of Andrew Johnson, p. 274. Stephen Abbott Northrop, D.D., A Cloud of Witnesses (Portland, OR: American Heritage Ministries, 1987), p. 255. [return to quotes]

42) Id. [return to quotes]

43) George F. Parker, ed., The Writings and Speeches of Grover Cleveland, pp. 182-183. Stephen Abbott Northrop, D.D., A Cloud of Witnesses (Portland, Oregon: American Heritage Ministries, 1987), p. 90. Peter Marshall and David Manuel, The Glory of America (Bloomington, MN: Garborg’s Heart’N Home, Inc., 1991), 3.19. [return to quotes]

44) Alfred Armand Montapert, Distilled Wisdom (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1965) p. 36. Bob Cutshall, More Light for the Day (Minneapolis, MN: Northwestern Products, Inc, 1991), 2.17. [return to quotes]

45) Charles E. Jones, The Books You Read (Harrisburg, PA: Executive Books, 1985), p. 117. [return to quotes]

46) 1935, in a radio broadcast, Grabriel Sivan, The Bible and Civilization (New York: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., 1973), p. 178. Gary DeMar, The Untold Story (Atlanta, GA: American Vision, Inc., 1993), p. 60. [return to quotes]

47) January 25, 1941, in the prologue of a special World War II addition of the Gideon’s New Testament and Psalms, (KJV-1611), printed by National Bible Press, Philadelphia. The Gideons International, 202 South State Street, Chicago, Illinois. [return to quotes]

48) General of the Phillipines. Proclaim Liberty (Dallas, TX: Word of Faith), p. 13. [return to quotes]

49) Baer v. Kolmorgen, 181 NYS 2d. 230, 237 (Sup. Ct. NY 1958). [return to quotes]

50) Engel v. Vitale, 370 U. S. 421, 445-446 (1962), Stewart, J. (dissenting). [return to quotes]

51) Wallace v. Jaffree, 472 U. S. 107(1984), Rehnquist, J. (dissenting). [return to quotes]