"Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

First Amendment to the US Constitution

"Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teaching of the Redeemer of mankind.... It is impossible that it should be otherwise and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian."

US Supreme Court  1892 - Church of the Holy Trinity v the United States

"We need God to be our friend. We need Him to be our ally, not our adversary. We need to make sure that we keep God's concurring aid. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without God noticing, how can we possibly think that a nation can rise without His aid."

Benjamin Franklin -

June 28, 1787 at the Constitutional Convention

"We have staked the whole future of American civilization not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."

James Madison - chief architect of the US constitution

"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."

Patrick Henry

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

John Jay - First Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court

"The highest glory of the American revolution was this: that it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."

John Quincy Adams

"Whoever will introduce into public affairs the principles of Christianity will change the face of the world."

Benjamin Franklin - 1774

"Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just and that His justice cannot sleep forever."

Thomas Jefferson

The United States is not a Christian nation.

Barack Obama

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