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America should function as a Christian nation.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government.

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.

One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

There can be no liberty without the law.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests. That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.