Hi Loki,
Here is a wee bit of a American history. Of course, unlike your quote (which I do not doubt) I do show sources and references so that you may validate the suggested information for yourself:
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JOHN ADAMS
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"Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other." -- John Adams. Letter to the Officers of the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Militia of Massachusetts, 11 October 1798, in Revolutionary Services and Civil Life of General William Hull (New York, 1848), pp 265-6.
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THE FOUNDING FATHERS ON JESUS, CHRISTIANITY AND THE BIBLE
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JOHN ADAMS: Signer of the Declaration of Independence; judge; diplomat; one of two signers of the Bill of Rights; second President of the United States.
"The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God." In a letter from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson on June 28, 1813.
"The Holy Ghost carries on the whole Christian system in this earth. Not a baptism, not a marriage, not a sacrament can be administered but by the Holy Ghost. . . . There is no authority, civil or religious – there can be no legitimate government but what is administered by this Holy Ghost. There can be no salvation without it. All without it is rebellion and perdition, or in more orthodox words ****ation." Letter from John Adams to Benjamin Rush, from Quincy, Massachusetts, dated December 21, 1809, from the original in our possession.
"Without religion, this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company: I mean hell." The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States, Charles Francis Adams, editor (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1856), Vol. X, p. 254.
"The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity." John Adams, Works, Vol. III, p. 421, diary entry for July 26, 1796.
"Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. . . . What a Eutopia – what a Paradise would this region be!" John Adams, Works, Vol. II, pp. 6-7, diary entry for February 22, 1756.
"I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world." John Adams, Works, Vol. X, p. 85, to Thomas Jefferson on December 25, 1813.
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JOHN QUINCY ADAMS: Son of John Adams, sixth President of the United States; diplomat; Secretary of State; U. S. Senator; U. S. Representative
"My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ and I cannot cavil or quibble away [evade or object to]. . . . the whole tenor of His conduct by which He sometimes positively asserted and at others countenances [permits] His disciples in asserting that He was God." The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams, Adrienne Koch and William Peden, editors (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946), p. 292, John Quincy Adams to John Adams, January 3, 1817.
"The hope of a Christian is inseparable from his faith. Whoever believes in the Divine inspiration of the Holy Scriptures must hope that the religion of Jesus shall prevail throughout the earth. Never since the foundation of the world have the prospects of mankind been more encouraging to that hope than they appear to be at the present time. And may the associated distribution of the Bible proceed and prosper till the Lord shall have made “bare His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God” [Isaiah 52:10]." Life of John Quincy Adams, W. H. Seward, editor (Auburn, NY: Derby, Miller & Company, 1849), p. 248.
"In the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior. The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity." John Quincy Adams, An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport at Their Request on the Sixty-First Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1837 (Newburyport: Charles Whipple, 1837), pp. 5-6.
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There is no doubt that our founding fathers intended America to be a Christian nation where all people would have the freedom to worship God where and when they wanted -- and where those who do not want to worship may so choose.
God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,
Bill
