[tflabo]

“We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We’ve staked the future of all our political institutions upon our capacity…to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.” ……James Madison [1778 to the General Assembly of the State of Virginia]

[Ken H]

Do you have a source for the Madison quote? Snopes contends it's bogus.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/capital.asp