George Washington
1st U.S.
President
"While we are
zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly
ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the
distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the
more distinguished character of Christian."
--The Writings of
Washington, pp. 342-343.
John Adams
2nd U.S. President
and Signer of the Declaration of Independence
"Suppose a
nation in some distant Region should take the Bible for their only law Book,
and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited!
Every member would be obliged in conscience, to temperance, frugality, and
industry; to justice, kindness, and charity towards his fellow men; and to
piety, love, and reverence toward Almighty God ... What a Eutopia, what a
Paradise would this region be."
--Diary
and Autobiography of John Adams, Vol. III, p. 9.
Thomas
Jefferson
3rd U.S. President,
Drafter and Signer of the Declaration of Independence
"God who gave us
life gave us liberty. 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 of 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; That a revolution of the wheel of
fortune, a change of situation, is among possible events; that it may become
probable by Supernatural influence! The Almighty has no attribute which can
take side with us in that event."
--Notes
on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII, p. 237.
"I am a real
Christian – that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus
Christ."
--The
Writings of Thomas Jefferson, p. 385.
