The New Tyrants (Above the Law)
 

George Washington, Father of our Country and signer of our Constitution, stated in his Farewell Address: “Of all the dispositions and habits, which will lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports… Let it simply be asked, Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail, in exclusion of religious principle.”

The Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals continued:

Against the weight of all this evidence, Chief Justice Moore’s insistence in his briefs and argument, and in part of his testimony, that the Ten Commandments as presented in his monument have a purely secular application is unconvincing. (Because there is no agnostic or atheistic purpose for the monument, it must be removed.)

Noah Webster, who was the author of the American Dictionary and was largely responsible for much of the Constitutional Convention, stated, “The opinion that human reason left without the constant control of Divine laws and commands will… give duration to a popular government is as chimerical [unlikely] as the most extravagant ideas that enter the head of a maniac. Where will you find any code of laws among civilized men in which the commands and prohibitions are not founded on Christian principles?”