[ContraryMary]

Speak not of matters of which you know nothing.

[Lady Heron]

“It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded ... on the gospel of Jesus Christ.”

—Patrick Henry

“We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us ... to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.”

—James Madison

Perhaps this will get you start looking for there is much, much more writen about the subject, but I doubt it.