Christianity And Government Quotes:

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.

topic: Political, Independence, Glory, One Nation Under God, Our Founding Fathers

quote the declaration of independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first john adams Quotes

- John Quincy Adams

source: Letter to an autograph collector from Washington on April 27, 1837, The Historical Magazine, archive.org. July 1860.

topic: Bible, God, Religious, American Revolution, One Nation Under God

Quotation John Quincy Adams The highest glory of the American Revolution was this it Quotes

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

The fundamental basis of this Nation's law was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings which we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul.

topic: Bible, God, Religious, Moral Decay, Liberty And Justice

Quotation John Adams Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious Quotes

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Bible, God, Religious, St Matthew, Exodus

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

topic: Country, Teaching, 4th Of July, Inspirational Patriotic, Patriotic Religious

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people... it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

- John Quincy Adams

topic: Religious, Business, 4th Of July, Moral Virtues, Morality And Religion

It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and also have done as much as he did to make others unbelievers.

- Benjamin Franklin

source: Benjamin Franklin (1962). “Representative selections: with introduction, bibliography, and notes”

topic: Christianity And Government, Religion And Government, Great Influence

I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment or free exercise of religion, but from that also which reserves to the States the powers not delegated to the United States. Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise or to assume authority in any religious discipline has been delegated to the General Government. It must then rest with the States.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

topic: Religious, Exercise, Government, Christianity And Government, Church And State

I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved - the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!

source: Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates, J. W. Randolph, James Madison (1850). “The Virginia Report of 1799-1800: Touching the Alien and Sedition Laws; Together with the Virginia Resolutions of December 21, 1798, Including the Debate and Proceedings Thereon in the House of Delegates of Virginia and Other Documents Illustrative of the Report and Resolutions”, p.136

topic: Exercise, Secular Society, Law, Redress, Founding

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State.

source: Letter to Thomas Jefferson, founders.archives.gov. September 03, 1816.

topic: Grief, Faith Religion, Historical, Deism, Our Founding Fathers

Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting "Jesus Christ," so that it would read "A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;" the insertion was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination.

topic: Religious, Wall, Lying, Religious Faith, State Government

We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and obedience to the laws. And we have experienced the quiet as well as the comfort which results from leaving every one to profess freely and openly those principles of religion which are the inductions of his own reason and the serious convictions of his own inquiries.

source: "Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson". Book by Thomas Jefferson, 1821.

topic: Christian, Religious, Jesus, Infidel, Preamble

But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?

source: Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.139

topic: Religious, Order, Law, Laws And Government, Christian Father

Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate it needs them not.

source: John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.235

topic: Christian, Religious, Faith Religion, Christian Atheist, Christian Father

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

source: James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

topic: Government, Atheism, Liberty, Christian Father, Christianity And Government

. . . Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, and which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind.

topic: Religious, Believe, Ignorance, Theism, State Government

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

source: John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.293

topic: Religious, Father, Rights, State Government, Our Founding Fathers

[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

topic: Existence, Boldness, Evidence Of God, Theism, World Religions

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.

source: James Madison (1836). “The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin's Letter, Yates's Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98-'99, and Other Illustrations of the Constitution”, p.204

topic: Religious, Atheist, Faith Religion, Anti Religious, Atheistic

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

topic: Religious, Ignorance, Pride, Shackles, Deism

As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen [Muslims] ... it is declared ... that no pretext arising from religious opinion shall ever product an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.... The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.

topic: Religious, Law, Presidential, Christian Right, Christianity And Government