“…for I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord’s side.” Abraham Lincoln

“I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in His Holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow Citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that He would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.” George Washington

“…Wise governments have always thought Religion necessary for the well-ordering and well-being of society, and accordingly have been ever careful to encourage and protect the ministers of it, paying them the highest public Honors, that their Doctrines might thereby meet with the greater respect among the common people.” Ben Franklin

“We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” Ben Franklin