Quotes from our Founding Fathers

First President: True religion affords to government its surest support.

Second President: Religion and virtue are the only foundations...of republicanism and of all free governments. President John Adams

First Supreme Court Chief Justice: National prosperity can neither be attained nor preserved without the favor of Providence. John Jay

Thomas Jefferson: The liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His will is a liberty deemed in other countries incompatible with good government and yet proved in our experience to be its best support.

Benjamin Franklin: We have been assured, sir, in the Sacred Writings that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without His concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel.

First Schoolmaster: All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. Noah Webster