"Don't let anyone claim to be a true American.  Don't let them claim the
tribute of American patriotism if they ever attempt to remove religion from
politics."
George Washington's farewell address

"Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is
the duty...of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their
rulers."  (1816)
First Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, John Jay

"Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants."
William Penn

"I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that
the Good Book and the spirit of the Savior have from the beginning been our
guiding geniuses...Whether we look to the first Charter of Virginia...or to
the Charter of New England...or to the Charter of Massachusetts Bay...or to
the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut...the same objective is
present...Christian land governed by Christian principles.  I believe the
entire Bill of Rights came into being because of the knowledge our
forefathers had of the Bible and their belief in it:  freedom of belief, of
expression, of assembly, of petition, the dignity of the individual, the
sanctity of the home, equal justice under law, and the reservation of powers
to the people...I like to believe we are living today in the spirit of the
Christian religion.  I like also to believe that as long as we do so, no
great harm can come to our country."
liberal Supreme Court Chief Justice, Earl Warren

George Washington wrote:

"Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can
prevail in exclusion of religious principle."
and
"It is impossible to rightly govern...without God & the Bible."
and
"You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all the
religion of Jesus Christ."  (to a group of Indian chiefs.)

John Adams said:
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is
wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

Abraham Lincoln said:
"Unless the great God who assisted (President Washington), shall be with me
and aid me, I must fail.  But if the same omniscient mind, and Almighty arm,
that directed and protected him, shall guide and support me, I shall not
fail...Let us pray that the God of our fathers may not forsake us now."

Grover Cleveland:
All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the
purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity to public trust, and in
the best type of citizenship."

Woodrow Wilson:
"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 the Holy Scripture."

Governor Bradford in writing of the Pilgrims' landing, describes their first
act..."Being thus arrived in a good harbor and brought safe to land, they
fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven...."

The New England Charter, signed by King James 1, confirmed the goal of the
first settlers to be:  "to advance the enlargement of Christian religion, to
the glory of God Almighty."

The goal of government based on Scripture was affirmed by individual
counties, such as is found in the Rhode Island Charter of 1683, which
begins:  "We submit our persons, lives and estates unto our Lord Jesus
Christ, the King of kings and Lord of lords and to all those perfect and
most absolute laws of His given us in His Holy Word."

Many, many other statements but

Patrick Henry made a very clear statement:  "It cannot be emphasized too
often or too strongly that this great nation was founded not be religionists
but by Christians; not on religions but on the gospel of Jesus Christ....It
is for this reason that people of other faiths have been afforded asylum,
prosperity and freedom of worship here."

My personal thoughts on anyone talking about/against Jesus Christ is that
the world is right on schedule, winding down.  Our redemption is ever closer
as the world does what it can always be counted on doing apart from God and
no amount of reason or logic will dissuade anyone.

Men like George Washington knew that countries whose systems of government
embraced anti-theistic views eventually comes to ruin.  Religious
convictions did play a role in the development of the U.S.  In 1892 this was
argued before the Supreme Court of the U.S.  After exhaustive deliberation
the court said, "Our laws and 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."

Can you imagine that a nation whose laws and institutions that are based on
the teachings of Christ would become the leader in education, of the arts
and invention.  Surely this place would probably become a haven of religious
liberty for more types and religions of people than ever existed anywhere or
at any time on earth.  Instead of religious persecution and intolerance,
such a place would offer hope and opportunity to the huddled masses of the
earth.

Thomas Jefferson:  "Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God
is just, and that His justice cannot sleep forever."

President John Quincy Adams:  "The first and almost the only book deserving
of universal attention is the Bible."

Andrew Jackson:  "Go to the Scriptures...the joyful promises it contains
will be a balsam to all your troubles."

President Abraham Lincoln's Proclamation for a National Day of Fasting,
Humiliation, and Prayer, April 30, 1863
        "We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity.
We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever
grown.     But we have forgotten God.  We have forgotten the gracious hand
which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened
us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that
all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our
own.  Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient
to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, to proud to pray to
the God that made us!  It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the
offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and
forgiveness."

I think Abe said it all.