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

James Madison, founding father and 4th U.S. President

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Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.

George Washington

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The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records.  They are written, as with a sun beam in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

Alexander Hamilton

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From the day of the Declaration...they (the American people) were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of the gospel, which they nearly all, acknowledge as the rules of their conduct.

John Quincy Adams

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No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.                

Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, November 4, 1775

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Thomas Jefferson, reflecting on why the committee chose the phraseology that they did in the writing of the Declaration of Independence

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The morbid cause of the French Revolution lies deep; it is not a rash on the skin; it is a plague that makes the bones brittle and cankers the marrow.

Fisher Ames

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Averred that 'one single act of parliament had set people a-thinking, in six months, more than they had in their whole lives before'. The thought was, that Americans might clothe themselves with their own hands, and be independent of a foreign supply.

James Otis, founding father

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You are  further to declare that we hold sacred the rights of conscience, and may promise to the whole people, solemnly in our name, the free and undisturbed exercise of their religion.  And...that all civil rights and the right to hold office were extended to persons of any Christian denomination.

Roger Sherman, founding father

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Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.

Elias Boudinot, founding father, President of the Continental Congress of 1783

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But, above all, let us implore the protection of that infinitely good and gracious Being [Proverbs 8:15] "by whom kings reign, and princes decree justice...."

John Dickinson, Founding father

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The real object of the First Amendment was not to coutenance, much less to advance Mohammedanism, Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity, but to exculde all rivalry among Christian sects and to prevent any national ecclesiastical patronage of the national government.

Joseph Story, appointed to the Supreme Court by President and founding father James Madison

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The Bible also unfolds the origin and deep foundations of depravity and guilt, and the means and hopes of salvation through the mediation of our Redeemer.  Its doctrines, its discoveries, its codes of morals, and its means of grace are not only overwhelming evidence of its Divine origin, but they confound the pretensions of all other systems by showing the narrow range of and the feeble efforts of human reason, even when under the sway of the most exalted understanding, and enlightened by the accumulated treasures of science and learning.

James Kent, Supreme Court Justice of New York in the founding generation

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In this day of calamity, to trust altogether to the justice of our cause, without our utmost exertion, would be tempting Providence... march on!

Jonathan Trumbull, in calling for volunteers to the Continental army

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...they may join the penitent confession of their manifold sins, whereby they had forfeited every favor, and their humble and earnest supplication that it may please God, through the merits of Jesus Christ, mercifully to forgive and blot them out of remembrance.

Richard Henry Lee, founding father

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Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Benjamin Franklin, founding father

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From no source has the author drawn more copiously than from the Sacred Scriptures.  For this [I] certainly apprehend no censure.  In a Christian country, that man is to be pitied, who, at this day, can honestly object to imbuing the minds of youth with the language and spirit of the Word of God.

William McGuffy, In the preface to his 1837 Eclectic Third Reader

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Make and establish such laws as shall best preserve true Christian and civil liberty, in all opposition to all unchristian...practices.

William Penn, Founding father of Pennsylvania

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It is the man of piety and inward principle, that we may expect to find the uncorrupted patriot, the useful citizen, and the invincible soldier. - God grant that in America true religion and civil liberty may be inseperable and that the unjust attempts to destroy the one, may in the issue tend to the support and establishment of both.

John Witherspoon, founding father

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To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men - Wealth ought not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration - The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.