“Religion is the only solid basis of good morals: therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man towards God.”  Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816), J. Sparks, 1832

“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? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.” Thomas Jefferson, Query 17 in Notes on the State of Virginia (1781-1785)

“Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavor to renovate the age, by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating their little boys and girls, of inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity…in short of leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system”   Samuel Adams, “letter of Samuel Adams to John Adams, 1790

“In my view, the Christian Religion is the most important and one of the first thing in which all children, under a free government, ought to be instructed…no truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian Religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the right s and privileges of a free people” Webster Noah (1953)

“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…”  George Washington Farewell address, 1796

“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.”  John Adams, June 1776

“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, Essays, Literary Moral and Philosophical, 1798

“…And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion…reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”  George Washington, Sept 1796,   Farewell Address, The Will of the People: Readings in American Democracy (Chicago: Great Books Foundation, 2001), 38.

“Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness” Samuel Adams, Letter to John Trumbull, Letter of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789, Volume 11, October 1778.

“The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality and religion.  This is the armor…and this alone, that renders us invincible.” Patrick Henry, 1736-1799 Moses Coit Tyler, Patrick Henry (New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1898; reprint, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1962), 409

“…only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.  As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.  Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Messrs, The abbes Chalut and Arnuad, dated April 1787.

“…the moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis or all our civil constitutions and laws…All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and ware, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.”  Noah Webster, “advice to the Young,” History of the United States, (New Haven” Durrie & Peck, 1832), 338-340.

“We have no government armed in power capable of contending in human passions unbridled by morality and religion… Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”  John Adams, “Letter to Zabdiel Adams, Philadelphia, June 1776,” in The works of John Adams – Second President of the Unit Stated, e. Charles Francis Adams (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1854), 9:401.

“To preserve the government we must also preserve morals.  Morality rest on religion; if you destroy the foundation, the superstructure must fall.  When the public mind becomes vitiated and corrupt, laws are a nullity and constitutions are waste paper.”  Daniel Webster, Fourth of July Oration Delivered at Fryeburg, ME, in the Year 1802 (A. Williams & Co./ A.F. & C. W. Lewis, Boston, Mass./Fryeburg, Me., 1882), 12.

“…We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights…F.N. Thorpe, ed., Federal and State Constitutions (Washington:GPO, 1909), 13.

“We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven.  We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity.  We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has every grown.  But we have forgotten God…  Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln, “Proclamation Appointing a National Fast Day” in Collected Works. 

Regardless the revisionist history littered upon our schools and published overtly in our nation, we live in a nation that has a Christian heritage.  We are a Christian nation that was founded by Godly men.  We should not run to the mirage expecting a drink from the waters of revision, but dig to the blocks of security that this nation has stood upon for over 200 years.

Some quotes reprinted from “The Truth Project”, Focus on the Family, Lesson 10 – The American Experiment: Stepping Stones