America was founded by people who believe that God is their Rock of safety. — Ronald Reagan
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! — Unknown Author
Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness. — Samuel Adams
American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just. — Ginny Brown-Waite
The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. — Billy Graham
Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments. — Gouverneur Morris
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
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams
The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation. — Pat Robertson
He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all. Our forefathers opened the Bible to all. — Samuel Adams
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Recognition of the Supreme Being was the first - the most basic - expression of Americanism. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian. — Mortimer Adler
The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality. — Fisher Ames
Founding Fathers Anti-religion Quotes
Those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy - the most sublime and benevolent, but most perverted system that ever shone on man - endeavored to crush your well-earned & well-deserved fame. — Thomas Jefferson
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. — Thomas Jefferson
I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man. — Thomas Jefferson
You'll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.
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. — Thomas Jefferson
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. — James Madison
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. — Thomas Jefferson
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance. — George Washington
Question with boldness even the existence of a god. — Thomas Jefferson
The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion. — Thomas Paine
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
Freedom Of Religion Quotes
Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty. — Chief Joseph
To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas. — Brock Chisholm
This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. — John Steinbeck
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.
People need to free their minds of racial prejudice and believe in equality for all and freedom regardless of race. It would be a good thing if all people were treated equally and justly and not be discriminated against because of race or religion or anything that makes them different from others. — Rosa Parks
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. — Ronald Reagan
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. — Mahatma Gandhi
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. s with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes. — George Carlin
Freedom of religion does not entitle your religion to have a privileged position within the public sphere. — Gad Saad
As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion. — Butterfly McQueen
If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, [then and only then will truth]prevail over fanaticism. — Thomas Jefferson
Founding Fathers Religion Quotes
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
The government of the United States of America has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims. — John Adams
Nothing happens by accident. God is preparing you for great things.
Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society. — George Washington
My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just — Thomas Jefferson
Without Virtue there can be no liberty — Benjamin Rush
I found that I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - thing I had no words for.
The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs. — Thomas Jefferson
The propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained... — George Washington
Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world. — Voltaire
We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus! — John Adams
Founding Fathers Christian Quotes
Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual… Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us. — John Hancock
Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties. — James Monroe
July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion. — John Adams
Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ. — James Madison
The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth. — John Dickinson
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. — Abraham Lincoln
Don't lose yourself just because you found somebody
Congress has no power to make any religious establishments. — Roger Sherman
The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible. — Benjamin Rush
I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning. — Benjamin Franklin
America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture. — Woodrow Wilson
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? — John Adams
I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies. — Benjamin Franklin
Religious wars are basically people killing each other over who has the better imaginary friend.
[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live. — Thomas Jefferson
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. — Thomas Jefferson
Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiment in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated. — George Washington
Watch you thoughts, for they become words. Watch you words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for the become you character. And watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. What we think, we become. My father always said that. And I think I am fine.
This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it. — John Adams
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. — Thomas Jefferson
The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing. — Thomas Paine
The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy. — George Washington
Christianity From Founding Fathers Quotes
Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity. — John Adams
It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible. — Thomas Paine
What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder. — Thomas Paine
One of the greatest thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? — Thomas Jefferson
It is evident from their writings that the Founding Fathers would never have tolerated the separation that we have embraced today. They knew that religious principles provided morality and self-control - the lifeblood for the survival of any self-governing community. — David Barton
There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. — Thomas Jefferson
I believe ... that the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life, respecting its conduct in this. — Benjamin Franklin
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. — John Adams
The truth is, that the greatest enemies to the doctrines of Jesus are those, calling themselves the expositors of them, who have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely incomprehensible, and without any foundation in His genuine words. — Thomas Jefferson
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. — Thomas Jefferson
Founding Fathers Quotes
If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking. — Benjamin Franklin
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. — Edward Abbey
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances. — Benjamin Franklin
When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil. — Thomas Jefferson
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry. — Unknown Author
Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped. — Charles Stanley
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. — Thomas Jefferson
A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother. — Benjamin Franklin
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. — Thomas Jefferson
Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first, the most basic, expression of Americanism. Thus, the founding fathers of America saw it, and thus with God's help, it will continue to be. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Founding Fathers Atheist Quotes
Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. — George Washington
Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion. — John Adams
The soul of man is immortal and imperishable. — Plato
The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity — John Adams
God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world. — John Adams
I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world. — John Adams
The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion. — Thomas Paine
If they are good workmen, they may be from Asia, Africa or Europe; they may be Mahometans, Jews or Christians of any sect, or they may be Atheists. — George Washington
Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years? — John Adams
I looked around for God's judgments, but saw no signs of them. — Benjamin Franklin
Founding Fathers Of America Quotes
The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms. — Samuel Adams
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. — Thomas Jefferson
For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests. — Alexander Hamilton
The Founding Fathers of America never intended to stop people expressing their faith in the public square. But unfortunately that is the way it is happened. — John Lennox
For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. — Thomas Jefferson
Those who enjoy the blessings of liberty under a divinely inspired constitution should promote morality, and they should practice what the Founding Fathers called civic virtue. — Dallin H. Oaks
The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man. — Thomas Jefferson
Christianity is the only true and perfect religion. — Benjamin Rush
Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell. — John Adams
Democracy is something America has never really practiced. Because the Founding Fathers hated two things: monarchy and democracy. They wanted a republic, a replica of the Roman or Venetian republics. They didn't even like the etymology of the word "democracy." — Gore Vidal
American Founding Fathers Quotes
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. — John Adams
I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them. But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president - not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans. — Caroline Kennedy
[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government. — Patrick Henry
Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right. — Joseph Sobran
We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. — Thomas Jefferson
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. — Joseph Story
All Americans mourn the passing of the author of the Declaration of Independence, George Jefferson. — Andy Borowitz
In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, 'Trust me,' they're actually being very un-American. — David Duchovny
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. — Benjamin Franklin
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. — John Adams
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle. — George Washington
Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. — George Washington
It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being. — George Washington
God has appointed two kinds of government in the world, which are distinct in their nature, and ought never to be confounded together; one of which is called civil, the other ecclesiastical government. — Isaac Backus
It is no slight testimonial, both to the merit and worth of Christianity, that in all ages since its promulgation the great mass of those who have risen to eminence by their profound wisdom and integrity have recognized and reverenced Jesus of Nazareth as the Son of the living God. — John Quincy Adams
The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity. — John Adams
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. — Benjamin Franklin
It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws. — George Washington
The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion. — James Madison
I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. — Thomas Jefferson
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