“We’ve staked the whole future of American civilization not on the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us... to govern ourselves according to the commandments of God. The future success of America is not in the Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.”
President James Madison, 1778

“Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.”
President Thomas Jefferson, 1781

Our laws and our 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.
United States Supreme Court, 1892

“If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we in our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.”
Daniel Webster, 1782 - 1852

Harvard University 1636, was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from the donation of property and the library of Rev. John Harvard. Originally called the College at Cambridge, Harvard was the first college in America, being established only sixteen years after the landing of the Pilgrims. The declared purpose of the college was:
To train a literate clergy.

These are the Rules and Precepts that were observed at Harvard,
September 26, 1642