Founding Fathers Of America Quotes:

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.

topic: Men, People, Ignorant, Informed Citizens, Justice Truth

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

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

topic: Religious, Insightful, Liberty, Anti Religious, Founding

- Thomas Paine

topic: Atheist, Pain, Fear, Anti Religious, Religious Faith

It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors.

It can not 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!

topic: Thanksgiving, Bible, God, Proclamation, Thanksgiving Day

- Unknown

topic: Bible, God, Education, Independence Day Patriotic, Inspirational Patriotic

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.

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.

topic: Christian, Country, Religious, State Government, Deism

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.

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

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

topic: Country, Religious, Religion, Our Founding Fathers, Deist

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

topic: Jesus, Father, Brain, Minerva, World Religions

Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought to be deprecated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society.

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

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

topic: Christian, Religious, Differences, Denominations, Our Founding Fathers

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.

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

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Believe, Creeds, Providence, Deism, Our Founding Fathers

I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man", "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man", and "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

topic: Change, Men, Mind, Individual Liberty, Theocracy

- Plato

topic: Men, Soul, Immortal, Soul Man, Deism

My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just

Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their [NOT our!] religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.

topic: God, Patriotic, Heart, Social Injustice, Justice And Injustice

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.

topic: Christian, Religious, Spring, Our Founding Fathers, God And Country

- Noah Webster

topic: Christian, Children, Views, Christian Patriotic, Founding America

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

source: Noah Webster (1843). “A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects”, p.291

topic: Christian, Government, Rights, Our Founding Fathers, Christian Patriotic

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.

- James Madison

topic: Religious, Ignorance, Pride, Shackles, Deism

We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart. In this enlightened Age and in this Land of equal liberty it is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest Offices that are known in the United States.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

topic: Religious, Heart, Men, Forfeit, Christian Church

- Thomas Paine

topic: Inspirational, Christian, Pain, Turkish, Religious Faith

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

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

The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of 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

I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man.

source: John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 10: Letters and State Papers 1811 - 1825”, p.38, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Bible, God, Religious, One Nation Under God, Dependence On God

- Alexander Hamilton

topic: Christian, Patriotic, Men, Jurors, Inspirational Patriotic

The only foundation for . . . 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.

- Benjamin Rush

source: Benjamin Rush (1806). “Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical ...”, p.8

topic: Bible, God, Religious, Moral Virtues, Morality And Religion

We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.

- Samuel Adams

topic: Bible, God, Patriotic, Kingdom Come, Patriotic Religious

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

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.

topic: God, Country, War, Social Injustice, Justice And Injustice

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

- 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

Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.

- James Madison

topic: Bible, God, Religious, Christian Heritage, Founding America

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?

When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.

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

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Support, Religion, Atheism, Obliged, Laws And Government

I can't tell Black people to fight a war that is Israel's war. What kind of leader will you be, or should I be, to allow these babies Black, white and brown, to fight Israel's war, because Zionists dominate the government of the United States of America and her banking system.

- Louis Farrakhan

topic: Baby, Religious, War, State Government, Deist

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!

topic: Truth, Freedom, Mistake, State Government, Deism

I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world.

topic: Bible, God, Religious, Inspirational Patriotic, Christian Heritage

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.

topic: Bible, God, Religious, Religion And Politics, Our Founding Fathers

The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.

source: John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.421

topic: Bible, God, Christian, Our Founding Fathers, Christianity From Founding Fathers

It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three; and yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one.

topic: Jesus, Simple, Men, Deism, Deist

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.

source: Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.209

topic: Religious, Believe, Men, Platonic, Founding