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 probably that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings, that "except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing Governments by Human wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest.
I therefore beg leave to move _ that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business, and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service.
-Ben Franklin, to the Constitutional Convention, June 28, 1787

We have no government armed with power capable of contendingwith 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

Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore
education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties
of man towards God.
-Governeur Morris
Pennsylvania delegate to the Constitutional Convention

Statesmen, my dear sir, may plan and speculate for liberty, but
it is religion and morality alone, which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only
foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.
-John Adams

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it
connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil
government with the principles of Christianity.
-John Quincy Adams

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the
price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, almighty God! I know not
what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or
give me death!
-Patrick Henry

A patriot without religion, in my estimation, is as great a
paradox as an honest man without the fear of God. Is it possible
that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good
Will towards Men? Can he be a patriot who, by an openly vicious
conduct, is undermining the very bonds of Society? _ The
Scriptures tell us righteousness exalteth a Nation.
-Abigail Adams

The brief exposition of the constitution of the United States
will unfold to young persons the principles of republican
government; and it is the sincere desire of the writer that our
citizens should early understand that the genuine source of
correct republican principles is the Bible, particularly the New
Testament or the Christian religion.
-Noah Webster

If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in
this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a
nation. If truth be not diffused, error will be; If God and His
Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will
gain the ascendancy; If the evangelical volume does not reach
every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will; If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.
-Daniel Webster

True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the World, but enables
them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it.
-William Penn


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 they are a gift of God? Indeed, I tremble for my
countrymen, when I reflect that God is just, that His justice
cannot sleep forever.
-Thomas Jefferson

The foundations of our society and our government rest so much
on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
-Calvin Coolidge

We have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation
has ever grown. But we have forgotten God_ and 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, then, to humble ourselves_to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.
-Abraham Lincoln

The higher state to which she [America] seeks the allegiance of
all mankind is not human, but of Divine origin. She cherishes no
purpose, save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
-Calvin Coolidge