“Government has no right to hurt a hair of the head of an atheist for his opinions.”
—JOHN ADAMS
“If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist?… Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.”
—THOMAS JEFFERSON
“I don’t know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.”
—GEORGE H. W. BUSH