4th President of the United States and Chief Architect of the Constitution
"We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."
See, one can take every statement the forefathers ever made out of context to support their arguments. I question the context of the comments that you posted.