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Quotes from the Founding Fathers

	"It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for benefits, and humbly to implore His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection, aid, and favors." George Washington
	"I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth that God governs the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?" Benjamin Franklin
	"And 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." Thomas Jefferson
	"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ! For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here." Patrick Henry
	"The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superceded by no power on earth. All human laws which contradict His laws, we are bound in conscience to disobey." George Mason
	"We have staked the future upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to sustain ourselves, according to the Ten Commandments of God" James Madison
	"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams
	"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 Quincy Adams
	"We will either be governed by God, or ruled by tyrants." William Penn