Washington and Contemporaries
Here are some quotes from the original Framers of the Constitution;...Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of Human happiness, these firmest props of the Duties of Men and Citizens. George Washington - General of Continental Army and First President of the United States
2- ...The Rights of Freedom being a gift from God Almighty...The Rights of colonists as
Christians...may best be understood by reading and studying the institutions of the Great Lawgiver...which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament...
Samuel Adams - A signer of the Declaration of Independence and a ringleader of the Revolution.
3- ...The Highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of Civil government with the principles of Christianity.
John Adams - Sixth President of the United States.
4 ...We have no government armed with power capable of contending with Human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of Our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other...
John Adams- Signer of the Declaration of Independence and second President of the United States.
5- ...We have no government armed with power capable of contending with Human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of Our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other...All societies of Men must be governed in some way or other. The less they have of stringent State government, the more they must have of Individual self government. The less they rely on public law or physical force, the more they must rely on private moral restraint.
Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled either by a power within them; either by the Word of God, or by the strong arm of Man; either by the Bible or by the bayonet...
Robert Charles Winthrop- US Congressman in a speech 75 years after Our Nation began.
Don't believe it? Check out the prison population.
