"This is a Christian nation" -- Harry S. Truman, letter to Pope Pius XII, 1947"Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian." -- Justice Josiah Brewer, US Supreme Court Feb 29 1892, 143 US 457-458
"...in Updegraph v. The Commonwealth, it was decided that, Christianity, general Christianity,is, and always has been, a part of the common law...not Christianity with the established church...but Christianity with liberty of consience to all men." -- Justice David Brewer, US Supreme Court, 1892, church of the Holy Trinity v. United States; (143 US 457-458, 465-471, 36 L ed 226)
"These fundamental objects of the Constitution are in perfect harmony with the revealed objects of the Christian religion. Union, justice, peace, the general welfare, and the blessings of civil and religious liberty, are the objects of Christianity, and always secured under its practical and beneficent reign.
The state must rest upon the basis of religion, and it must preserve this basis, or itself must fall. But the support which religion gives to the state will obviously cease the moment religion loses its hold upon the popular mind.
This is a Christian nation, first in name, and secondly because of the many and mighty elements of a pure Christianity which have given it character and shaped its destiny from the beginning. It is preeminently the land of the Bible, of the Christian Church, and of the Christiani Sabbath... The chief security and glory of the United states of America has been, is now and will forever be, the prevalence and domination of the Christian Faith." -- Benjamin Franklin Morris, 1864, notable American historian.
"America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of Holy Scripture." - - President Woodrow Wilson , 1913