Below are quotations on a variety of topics, from famous people, for you to think about:

Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise. And in this sense, and to this extent, our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian. - The US Supreme Court (1892)

The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority. - Dr. Martin Luther Kings, Jr.

By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion, and all other sects and denominations of Christians are placed on the same equal footing and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty. - Samuel Chase

Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. - John Adams

We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God. - James Madison

For my own part, I sincerely esteem that a system with which, without the finger of God never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests. The finger of God helped us found this country and found our Constitution. - Alexander Hamilton

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. - George Washington

It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For that reason alone, people of other faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here. - Patrick Henry

Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country. - John F Kennedy

It has been said the greatest volume of sheer brainpower in one place occurred when Jefferson dined alone. - John F Kennedy

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. - Thomas Jefferson

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. - Thomas Jefferson

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. - Thomas Jefferson

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. - Thomas Jefferson

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. - Thomas Jefferson

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. - Thomas Jefferson

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. - Thomas Jefferson

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. - Thomas Jefferson

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. - Thomas Jefferson

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. - Thomas
Jefferson

If you don't read the newspaper you are
uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. - Mark Twain

It's not what I don't understand in the Bible that troubles me, it's what I do understand. - Mark Twain