John Adams, 2nd President of United States, Signer of The Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence: "The general principles on which the Fathers achieved independence were...the general principles of Christianity. 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."

George Washington, 1st President of United States, Father of our country who presided over the formation of both the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights: "Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice?" "If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention, where I had the honor to preside, might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical society, certainly I would never have placed my signature to it."

Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of United States:

"A more beautiful or precious morsel of ethics I have never seen; it is a document in proof that I am a real Christian; that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus." "I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man." "No nation has ever existed or been governed without religion. Nor can be. The Christian religion is the best religion that has been given to man and I, as Chief Magistrate of this nation, am bound to give it the sanction of my example."

John Jay, the original Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and one of the three men most responsible for composing the U.S. Constitution:

"Providence (God) has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is our duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation, to select and prefer Christians for their rulers."

James Madison, 4th President of United States:

"Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe (Almighty God). And to the same Divine Author of every good and perfect gift, we are indebted for all those privileges and advantages, religious as well as civil, which are so richly enjoyed in this favored land."

Noah Webster, Founding Father and Author of Webster's Dictionary:

"The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and His Apostles...This is genuine Christianity and to this we owe our free constitutions of government."

Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of United States:

"Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever." "No power over the freedom of religion is delegated to the United States by the Constitution."

John Adams, 2nd President of United States:

"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion...Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

Patrick Henry, Congressman and five time Governor to Virginia:

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ! For this reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here."

Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration, member of Continental Congress, founder of five universities:

"Surely future generations wouldn't try to take the Bible out of schools. In contemplating the political institutions of the United States, if we were to remove the Bible from schools, I lament that we could be wasting so much time and money in punishing crime and would be taking so little pains to prevent them." "The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded."

Daniel Webster, one of America's greatest orators, cautioned fellow citizens in 1820 "not to forget the religious character of our origin." Speaking on the bicentennial of the Pilgrim's arrival, he declared, "Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the Christian religion. They journeyed by its light and labored by its hope. They sought to incorporate its principles with the elements of their society and to diffuse its influence through all their institutions, civil, political, or literary."

George Washington, 1st President of the United States, Commander in Chief of the US during the Revolutionary War, chairman of the Constitutional Convention. In speaking to the Delaware Indian Chiefs, he said "You do well to learn our arts and our ways of life, and above all the religion of Jesus Christ." In some of Washington's papers, he said "Let me live according to those holy rules which Thou hast this day prescribed in Thy Holy Word...direct me to the true object, Jesus Christ, the way, the truth, and the life. Bless, O Lord, all the people of this land." "To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian." In Washington's first Inaugural Address, he said, "We ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected of a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which heaven itself ordained."

Fisher Ames, delegate to the Constitutional Convention and co-writer of the First Amendment:

"The Bible should always remain the principle text book in America's classrooms. Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble...the Bible will justly remain the standard language as well as of faith."

John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States:

"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....The United States of America were no longer colonies. They were the independent nation of Christians." "It is no slight testimonial, both to the merit and worth of Christianity, that in all ages since its promulgation the great mass of those who have risen to eminence by their profound wisdom and integrity have recognized and reverenced Jesus of Nazareth as the Son of the living God."

John Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court 1801-1835:

"The American population is entirely Christian, and with us Christianity and religion are identified. It would be strange indeed, if such a people, our institutions did not presuppose Christianity, and did not often refer to it, and exhibit relations with it."

Reference sources - Library of Congress, Washington D.C., America's God and Country by William J. Federer published 1994, The Foundations of American Government by David Barton published 1993, Education and the Founding Fathers by David Barton published 1993, America's Godly Heritage by David Barton published 1993, The Image and the Reality: Thomas Jefferson and the First Amendment by David Barton published 2003, The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) resource section, First Liberties of the Rutherford Institute resource center, Center for Reclaiming America for Christ, Coral Ridge Ministries.