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  • “Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. ”
    George Washington , Diary Entry · View
  • “Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. ”
    George Washington , Diary Entry · View
  • “Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private virtue. ”
    John Adams , Letter to Mercy Otis Warren · View
  • “I think the system of morals and his religion, as he left them to us, is the best the world ever saw. ”
    Benjamin Franklin , Letter to Ezra Stiles · View
  • “A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. ”
    Patrick Henry , Speech to Virginia Convention · View
  • “As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. ”
    James Madison , Essay on Property · View
  • “It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. ”
    Thomas Jefferson , Letter to John Adams · View
  • “Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government... The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. ”
    George Washington , Farewell Address · View
  • “The more moral the people are in their business dealings, the more the wheels of capitalism work better. ”
    Benjamin Rush , Letter to Thomas Jefferson · View
  • “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports... Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. ”
    George Washington , Farewell Address · View
  • “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. ”
    John Adams , Address to the Massachusetts Militia · View
  • “Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion. ”
    Gouverneur Morris , Speech at Constitutional Convention · View
  • “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, is the best the world ever saw. ”
    Benjamin Franklin , Letter to Ezra Stiles · View
  • “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. ”
    John Adams , Address to the Massachusetts Militia · View
  • “By conveying the Bible to people thus deprived, we certainly do them a most interesting act of kindness. Were it not for this Book, we could not know right from wrong. All the things desirable to man are contained in it. ”
    John Jay , Letter to the Committee of the American Bible Society · View
  • “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 the Massachusetts Militia · View
  • “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. ”
    George Washington , Farewell Address · View
  • “Liberty is not the daughter but the parent of virtue. ”
    John Dickinson , Letter from a Farmer No. 5 · View
  • “Religion is too often made a Cloak for Villainy. ”
    Benjamin Franklin , Silence Dogood Letter No. 5 · View
  • “Liberty must be supported by virtue and morality. ”
    John Adams , Letter to Mercy Otis Warren · View
  • “Liberty is not the right to do as we please, but the right to do as we ought. ”
    John Adams , Letter to John Quincy Adams · View
  • “Every measure of prudence ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery from the United States. ”
    John Adams , Letter to Robert Evans · View
  • “Slavery is a hydra sin against God and man. ”
    Benjamin Rush , Letter to Anthony Benezet · View
  • “Much harm may result from bad company, and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse than what is better. ”
    Elizabeth Ann Seton , Collected Writings II · View
  • “We have staked the whole future of American civilization ... upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves according to the Ten Commandments. ”
    James Madison , Attributed · View
  • “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 the Massachusetts Militia · View
  • “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. ”
    Benjamin Franklin , Speech to the Constitutional Convention · View
  • “Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time. ”
    Charles Carroll of Carrollton , Letter to James McHenry · View
  • “The laws of morality and religion are the foundation of all social order. ”
    Charles Carroll of Carrollton , Letter to James McHenry · View
  • “Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. ”
    George Washington , Farewell Address · View
  • “[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue. ”
    John Adams , The Works of John Adams · View
  • “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. ”
    George Washington , Farewell Address · View
  • “Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion ... are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments. ”
    Charles Carroll of Carrollton , Letter to James McHenry · View
  • “Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society. ”
    George Washington , Address to the Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church · View
  • “The practice of morality being necessary for the well-being of society, it is incumbent on its members to support and encourage it ... and to countenance the principles of religion. ”
    Benjamin Rush , Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical · View
  • “The religion of Jesus is founded on reason and love. It is the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man. ”
    Thomas Jefferson , Letter to Moses Robinson · View
  • “Education should teach the precepts of religion and the duties of man towards God. ”
    Gouverneur Morris , Speech at the Constitutional Convention · View
  • “Education must be grounded in morality to serve the republic. ”
    Oliver Ellsworth , Speech at the Constitutional Convention · View