From the mouth of one smart man...

Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally impossible for us to figure ourselves what that life would be if these standards were removed. We would lose almost all the standards by which we now judge both public and private morals; all the standards which we, with more or less resolution, strive to raise ourselves.

--Theodore Roosevelt

The world is at this moment passing through one of those terrible periods of convulsion when the souls of men and of nations are tried as by fire….In such a crisis the moral weakling is the enemy of the right, the enemy of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

--Theodore Roosevelt

Liberty and justice simply cannot be had apart from the gracious influences of a righteous people. A righteous people simply cannot exist apart from the aspiration to liberty and justice. The Christian religion and its incumbent morality is tied to the cause of freedom with a Gordian knot; loose one from the other and both are sent asunder.

--Theodore Roosevelt