We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people

Thomas Jefferson survives.

The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.

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

A lawyer once told a jury that the person his client stood accused of having killed was about to walk through the courtroom door. When the jurors looked startled, the lawyer asserted that if those jurors had wondered, even for one second that the victim might appear, that belief constituted enough reasonable doubt for them to find his client innocent.

Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.

But I must submit all my Hopes and Fears, to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the Faith may be, I firmly believe.