The greatest Part of Mankind, nay of Christians, may be said to be asleep... (William Law, Spirit of Prayer)

"Americans have long been accustomed to think of the values of religion and the values of republicanism as supporting each other…. (Mark A. Noll, America's God, From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln)

Where to politicians come from?  An intellectual vacuum!

A representative has no right to defeat the wishes of those who elect him, if he knows their wishes. (William Jennings Bryan, The Price of a Soul)

"What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" (Jesus Christ)

“The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness, ‘a lantern to his feet and a lamp unto his paths.’ He will therefore seek to establish for his country in the eyes of the world, such a character as shall make her not unworthy of the name of a Christian nation.”  Francis Scott Key, (February 22, 1812)

Religion and politics ought to be wedded like a loving pair.  (Senator Alfred Holt Colquitt)

“On every question of construction, carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.” (Thomas Jefferson in a letter to William Johnson, June 13, 1823, University of Virginia on-line library).

The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new—the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with all its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of humanism, resplendent in its promise of a world in which the never-realized Christian ideal of ‘love thy neighbor’ will be finally achieved.”  John J. Dunphy, “A Religion for a New Age,” The Humanist (January/February 1983), 26