Charles Carroll, signer of the Declaration of Independence, insisted: “Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure...are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments”
In an 1829 letter to James Madison, Noah Webster declared: “[T]he Christian religion, in its purity, is the basis, or rather the source of all genuine freedom in government....and I am persuaded that no civil government of a republican form can exist and be durable in which the principles of that religion have not a controlling influence”.
The first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, John Jay, maintained; “Only one adequate plan has ever appeared in the world, and that is the Christian dispensation”.
George Washington proclaimed to the entire nation in his farewell address that religion and morality are the indispensable supports of political prosperity, the great pillars of human happiness, and a necessary spring of popular government (1796).
James Madison declared at the end of their work with the Constitution in 1787: "We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of the government but upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."
President John Quincy Adams: "Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."
The full text of the sermon will be added in early week.
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