Historic Quotes Regarding America’s Religious Foundations

· George Washington: “It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God or the Bible.” And “Reason and experience forbid us to expect public morality in the absence of religious principle.”

· Daniel Webster: “If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our nation will go on prospering.”

· From the Mayflower Compact, 1620: “In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord, King James, by the Grace of God, of England, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia . . . “

· From the Massachusetts Bay Charter: “. . . whereby our said people, inhabitants there, may be so religiously, peaceably, and civilly governed, as their good life and orderly conversation may win and incite the natives of country to the knowledge and obedience of the only true God and Savior of mankind and the Christian faith.”

· John Adams: “We do not have a government armed with suffered power to tame the animal passions of mankind. The Constitution is made only for a moral and a religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.”

· Rob Schenck, president of the Washington-based National Clergy Council, to the Supreme Court justices: “If you can display these Ten Commandments above your head, why can’t the people of Alabama display them in the rotunda of their Supreme Court building?”

· Orthodox Jewish Rabbi Daniel Lapin: says openly that he would much prefer his children to live in a Christian America than a godless secular America, which tramples on the fundamental values he holds dear.