Founding Fathers Religion Quotes

#1. Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?

John Adams

#2. There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.

Jesse Ventura

#3. I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.

Jesse Ventura

#4. Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disassociate without penalty. Belief or nonbelief was a matter of individual choice - a right underwritten in the basic charter of the nation's liberties.

Norman Cousins

#5. Outlawing religion form the political arena is not what the Founding Fathers intended when they drafted the First Amendment. We do a grave disservice to our country by removing the influence of religion. If you separate God from the public arena, inevitably you separate good from our government.

Bill Bright

#6. Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Saviour?

John Quincy Adams

#7. America's forefathers had a vision of a spiritually enlightened utopia, in which freedom of thought, education of the masses, and scientific advancement would replace the darkness of outdated religious superstition.

Dan Brown

#8. The theory for admitting accomplice testimony that is uncorroborated is that conspiracy is by its nature secretive and that only the parties to it can know it occurred. But in practice this means the accomplice's guilt is modified to the degree that he can convict the defendant.

E.L. Doctorow

#9. My record is, far as I know, unimpeachable.

Mitch Daniels

#10. It is a little-known fact about covert operations that you will spend a lot of time with people you can't really trust. They may be traitors and liars. We call them assets or informants. But mostly, in those days, I called him Zach.

Ally Carter

#11. It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

Benjamin Franklin

#12. Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.

John Adams

#13. The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.

James Madison

#14. What is it the Bible teaches us?
rapine, cruelty, and murder.

Thomas Paine

#15. The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology.

Michael J. Findley

#16. The man who can best gets along with women, is the man who can get along without them.

Sylvester Stallone

#17. There is beauty within each one of us. It just takes the right person to spot it.

Faraaz Kazi

#18. The words and acts of the founding fathers, especially the first few presidents, shaped the form and tone of the civil religion as it has been maintained ever since. Though much is selectively derived from Christianity, this religion is clearly not itself Christianity. ROBERT BELLAH1

Gregory A. Boyd

#19. I was ready to approach her with my English charm, when her brass knuckled boyfriend grabbed me by the arm.

Elton John

#20. The founding fathers went out of their way to establish a clear "wall of separation" between religion and state, to quote Thomas Jefferson. They reasoned, as James Madison so cleverly articulated, that both religion and government exist in greater purity if kept apart.

Phil Zuckerman

#21. From a constitutional standpoint, the religion of a candidate is supposed to make no difference. Even before the founding fathers dreamed up the First Amendment, they inserted a provision in the Constitution expressly prohibiting any religious test for office.

Noah Feldman