Top 6 Founding Fathers Religion Quotes

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

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

Murder, Founding Fathers Religion, Cruelty

Thomas Paine (1995). “Thomas Paine: Collected Writings: Common Sense / The American Crisis / Rights of: (Library of America #76)”, p.822, Library of America

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

James Madison

Constitution, Separation, Founding Fathers Religion

"Concerned Catholic Paul Ryan Wants Priests to Shut Up About the Poor" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. April 27, 2018.

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

Events, Founding Fathers Religion, Chains

John Quincy Adams (1837). “An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport, at Their Request, on the Sixty-first Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1837”, p.5

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

John Adams

Lying, Years, Founding Fathers Religion

The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

John Adams

Code Of Ethics, Christianity, Founding Fathers Religion

John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.229