While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

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.

Religions are different roads converging on the same point.

A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.