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 “We have staked the whole future of American civilization not on the power of government, far from it. We have staked the whole of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves according to the commandments of God.

The future and success of America are not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.”

James Madison

“The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart."

Thomas Jefferson