The Importance of Christianity for Good Government
"The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the hierarchal State Controlled Church] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of its benevolent Institutor, is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science, and the freest expansion of the human mind." ~ Thomas Jefferson ~ Letter to Moses Robinson March 23, 1801
"Let an Association be formed to be denominated, “The Christian Constitutional Society.” It’s objects to be first, the support of the Christian Religion and second the support of the Constitution of the United States". - Alexander Hamilton, Letter to James Bayard, April 16-20, 1802
Truth will win the day
"..Truth is great, and will prevail if left to herself, and is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and can have nothing to fear from the conflict, unless (by human interposition) disarmed of her natural weapons – free argument and debate: errors ceasing to be dangerous when it [Truth] is permitted freely to contradict them." ~ Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Statutes on Religious Freedom, Jan 16, 1786
The Assault on the Founders Faith
"..My views of it [the Christian religion]…..are the result of a life of inquiry and reflection, and very different from that Anti-Christian system imputed to me by those who know nothing of my opinions." ~ Thomas Jefferson in a letter to John Adams
Christianity and Civil Government support each other
"Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and the longer I stayed there, the more I perceived the great political consequences resulting from this new state of things. In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions. But in America I found they were intimately united and that they reigned in common over the same country." ~ Alexis DeTouqville, Democracy in America, 1835, 1840
Religion in America.. .must be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions of that country; for if it does not impart a taste for freedom, it facilitates the use of it. Indeed, it is in this same point of view that the inhabitants of the United States themselves look upon religious belief. I do not know whether all Americans have a sincere faith in their religion-for who can search the human heart?-But I am certain that they hold it to be indispensable to the maintenance of republican institutions. This opinion is not peculiar to a class of citizens or a party, but it belongs to the whole nation and to every rank of society. ~ Alexis DeTouqville, Democracy in America, 1835, 1840
The Bible
"Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet anchor of your liberties. Write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives. To the influence of this book are we indebted for all the progress made in true civilization, and to this we must look as our guide in the future. Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people." ~ Ulysses S. Grant,
Christianity vs. Infidels
Christianity works while infidelity talks. She feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, visits and cheers the sick, and seeks the lost, while infidelity abuses her and babbles nonsense and profanity. By their fruits you shall know them" ~ Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman, abolitionist and social reformer. VS. Mikey Weinstein.
“Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is impossible that a nation of infidels or idolaters should be a nation of freemen. It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessing of liberty can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.” ~ Patrick Henry
Immigration
“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes and American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against such a man because of his creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American and nothing but an American … There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag … We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language … and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is loyalty to the American people” - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1917
"those yearning to be free" - The Statue of Liberty