"The Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children under a free government ought to be instructed. No truth is more evident than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people."
"The Christian religion...is the basis, or rather the source, of all genuine freedom in government...I am persuaded that no civil government of a republican form can exist and be durable in which the principles of Christianity have not a controlling influence."
(Noah Webster/Revolutionary soldier, Judge, Legislator, Educator,"Schoolmaster to America")
"He is the best friend to American liberty who is the most sincere and active in promoting true and undefiled religion, and who sets himself with the greatest firmness to bear down profanity and immorality of every kind. Whoever is an avowed enemy of God, I scruple not to call him an enemy to his country."
(John Witherspoon/Signer of the Declaration of Independance, Ratifier of the U.S. Constitution, President of Princeton)
How far we have departed from these principles!
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