ADAMS, JOHN:
Our Constitution was made for a
moral and religious people.
It is wholly inadequate for the government
of any other. (1798)
 

BRADFORD, WILLIAM:
We whose names are underwritten,
the loyal subjects of our sovereign Lord,
King James, by the grace of God, of Great Britain,
France, & Ireland king,
defender of the faith, etc.,
having undertaken for the glory of God,
and advancement of the Christian faith,
and honor of our king & country,
a voyage to plant the first colony
in the Northern parts of Virginia.
(1620 -Mayflower Compact)
 

To all ye Pilgrims:
In as much as the great Father has given us
this year an abundant harvest of Indian Corn,
wheat, peas, beans, squashes, and garden vegetables,
and has made the forests to abound
with game and the sea with fish and clams,
and in as much as he has protected us
from the ravages of the savages,
has spared us from pestilence and disease,
has granted us freedom to worship God
according to the dictates of our own conscience;
now I, your magistrate,
doproclaim that all ye Pilgrims,
with your wives and ye little ones,
do gather at ye meeting house, on ye hill,
between the hours of 9 and 12 in the day time,
on Thursday, November ye 29th, of the year of our Lord
one thousand six hundred and twenty three,
and the third year since ye Pilgrims
landed on ye Pilgrim Rock,
there to listen to ye pastor and
render thanksgiving to ye
Almighty God for all His blessings.
(1623 - Thanksgiving)
 
 

FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN:
Whoever shall introduce into public affairs
the principles of primitive Christianity
will change the face of the world. (1778)

I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth
prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven
and its blessing on our deliberations,
be held in this Assembly every morning....
(1787, Constitutional Convention)
 
 

HAMILTON, ALEXANDER:
In my opinion,
the present constitution is the standard
to which we are to cling.
Under its banner bona fide must we combat
our political foes, rejecting all changes
but through the channel itself provided for
amendments.
By these general views of the subject
have my reflections been guided.
I now offer you the outline of the plan
they have suggested.

Let an association be formed
to be denominated
"The Christian Constitutional Society,"
its object to be
first: The support of the Christian religion.

second:The support of the United States.
(1802 in a letter to James Bayard,
explaining the bond between
Christianity and Constitutional Freedom)
 
 

HENRY, PATRICK:
It cannot be emphasized too strongly
or too often
that this great nation was founded,
not by religionists, but by Christians;
not on religions,
but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
For this very reason peoples of other faiths
have been afforded asylum, prosperity,
and freedom of worship here.
(1765)
 
 

JAY, JOHN
(First Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court):
Providence has given to our people
the choice of their rulers,
and it is the duty,
as well as the privilege and interest of
our Christian nation  to select and prefer
Christians for their rulers.
(1816)
 
 

JEFFERSON, THOMAS:
God who gave us life gave us liberty.
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 a 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.
(1781 - Notes on the State of Virginia)
 

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...
(1803 letter to Benjamin Rush)
 
 

LINCOLN, ABRAHAM:
It is the duty of nations as well as of men
to own their dependence upon the
overruling power of God,
to confess their sins and transgressions in
humble sorrow,
yet with assured hope that
genuine repentance will lead to mercy
and pardon.
(1863 - Proclamation Appointing a National Day of Fasting)
The philosophy of the school room in one generation
will be the philosophy of government in the next.
 
 

MADISON, JAMES:
We have staked the whole future
of American civilization,
not upon the power of government,
far from it. We have staked the future
of all of our political institutions.....
upon the capacity of each and all of us
to govern ourselves,
to control ourselves,
to sustain ourselves according to
the Ten Commandments of God.
(1778)
 
 

PAINE, THOMAS:
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.
(1776)
 
 

RUSH, BENJAMIN:
In contemplating the political institutions
of the U.S.,
if we were to remove the Bible from schools,
I lament that we would be wasting so much
time and money punishing crimes
and would be taking so little pains to prevent them.
(1791 - Educational Policy Papers)
 
 

U.S. SUPREME COURT:
Our laws and our institutions must
necessarily be based upon and embody
the
teachings of the Redeemer of mankind.
It is impossible that it should be otherwise;
and in this sense and to this extent our
civilization and our institutions
are emphatically Christian.
(1892)
 
 

WASHINGTON, GEORGE:
The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be
expected on a nation that
disregards the eternal rules of order and right
which Heaven itself has ordained.
(1789 - Inaugural Address)

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.
(1796 - Farewell Speech)
 
 

WEBSTER, NOAH:
The moral principles and precepts
contained in the Scriptures ought to
form the basis of all of our
civil constitutions and laws....
All the miseries and evils which men suffer
from vice,  crime, ambition, injustice,
oppression, slavery and war,
proceed from their despising or neglecting the
precepts contained in the Bible.
(1832, in his "History of the United States")