Our Founding Fathers’ religious beliefs and spirit are frequently being maligned. During this Christmas season, let us revive a few of the Founding Fathers’ thoughts in their own words.

George Washington: “Do not let anyone claim to be true Americans if they ever attempt to remove religion from politics.”

John Jay: “The Bible is the best of all books, for it’s the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts.”

Alexander Hamilton: “For my own part, I sincerely esteem it [the Constitution] a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.”

Thomas Jefferson: “Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His will; a liberty deemed in other countries incompatible with good government and yet proved by our experience to be its best support.”

James Madison: “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.”

Benjamin Franklin: “Here is my creed, I believe in God, the creator of the universe and that he governs it by His Providence.”

Patrick Henry: “It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great Nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship.”

Merry Christmas from the Founding Fathers.