Selected Quotes on Religion from the Founding Fathers
"We ought to ascribe the absence of any regulation, respecting religion, from the Magna-Charta of our country." - George Washington
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." - Benjamin Franklin
"Question with boldness even the existence of God." - Thomas Jefferson
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise." - James Madison
"God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world." - John Adams
"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records." - Alexander Hamilton