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“Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure (and) which insures to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments.”

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Author:Charles Carroll of Carrollton
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“Now 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; and that those principles of liberty are as unalterable as human nature and our terrestrial, mundane system.”

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Book:Correspondence
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“I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson
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“My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson
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“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.”

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Author:Benjamin Franklin
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“In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practiced, and both by precept and example inculcated on mankind.”

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Book:The planting of colonies in New England
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“[F]or avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy . . . the only ground of hope must be on the morals of the people. I believe that religion is the only solid base of morals and that morals are the only possible support of free governments. [T]herefore education should teach the precepts of religion and the duties of man towards God.”

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Author:Gouverneur Morris
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“[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The reverence for the Sacred Book that is thus early impressed lasts long; and probably if not impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind.”

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Book:Works of Fisher Ames: With a Selection from His Speeches and Correspondence
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“Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?”

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Book:The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations
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“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

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Book:The Virginia Report of 1799-1800: Touching the Alien and Sedition Laws; Together with the Virginia Resolutions of December 21, 1798, Including the Debate and Proceedings Thereon in the House of Delegates of Virginia and Other Documents Illustrative of the Report and Resolutions
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“Houses of Congress have . . . requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the many signal favors of Almighty God.”

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Book:The Writings of George Washington: pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses
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“As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes; and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity.”

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Book:The Portable Benjamin Franklin
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“I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.”

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Book:The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author
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“I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.”

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Book:The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author
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“While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.”

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Book:The Papers of George Washington: May-June 1778
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“Because we hold it for 'a fundamental and undeniable truth', that religion or 'the duty which we owe to our Creator' and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence.”

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Book:The Writings of James Madison: 1783-1787
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“Is it not that in the chain of human events, the birthday of a nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity?”

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Author:John Quincy Adams
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“I never liked the Hierarchy of the Church-an equality in the teacher of Religion, and a dependence on the people, are republican sentiments-but if the Clergy combine, they will have their influence on Government”

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Book:The Life and Correspondence of Rufus King: 1755-1794
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“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.”

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Book:A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects
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“Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance.”

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Book:James Madison's
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“It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and a usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin. Let us, then, look to the great cause, and endeavor to preserve it in full force. Let us by all wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.”

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Book:Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition
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“Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.”

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Book:The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799
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“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.”

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Book:Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States
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“Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.”

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Author:George Washington
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“I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society. One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a part of the Common Law... There never has been a period in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying its foundations.”

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Author:Joseph Story
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“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.”

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Book:An Appeal to the Public for Religious Liberty Against the Oppressions of the Present Day
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“Knowledge and liberty are so prevalent in this country, that I do not believe that the United States would ever be disposed to establish one religious sect, and lay all others under legal disabilities. But as we know not what may take place hereafter, and any such test would be exceedingly injurious to the rights of free citizens, I cannot think it altogether superfluous to have added a clause, which secures us from the possibility of such oppression.”

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Author:Oliver Wolcott
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“It is contrary to the principles of reason and justice that any should be compelled to contribute to the maintenance of a church with which their consciences will not permit them to join, and from which they can derive no benefit; for remedy whereof, and that equal liberty as well religious as civil, may be universally extended to all the good people of this commonwealth.”

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Author:George Mason
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“No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever.”

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Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson
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“Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson
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“It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against which I contend. The story, taking it as it is told, is blasphemously obscene.”

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Book:The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology
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“I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson
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“To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys.... Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government, and all blessings which flow from them, must fall with them.”

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Author:Jedidiah Morse
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“It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God.”

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Author:George Washington
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