Founding Fathers Quotes on Conscience
Our Christian Founding Fathers obeyed God and gave each person the right of conscience to worship the LORD. Here are some important Founding Fathers’ quotes on conscience:
John Jay, First Chief Justice
“Security under our constitution is given to the rights of conscience and private judgment. They are by nature subject to no control but that of Deity [the Lord], and in that free situation they are now left.”
George Washington
“If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention, where I had the honor to preside, might possibly endanger the religious rights [Christian rights] of any ecclesiastical society, certainly I should never have placed my signature to it; and, if I could now conceive that the General Government might ever be so administered as to render the liberty of conscience insecure, I beg you will be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny and every species of religious persecution.”
“I have often expressed my sentiments that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious [Christian] opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity [the Lord] according to the dictates of his own conscience.”
(Also) Christian Leader Charles Finney
“If there is a decay of conscience, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the public press lacks moral discernment, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the church is degenerate and worldly, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the world loses its interest in Christianity, the pulpit is responsible for it. If Satan rules in our halls of legislation, the pulpit is responsible for it. If our politics become so corrupt that the very foundations of our government are ready to fall away, the pulpit is responsible for it.”
