It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.
— Aristotle
Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.
— Aristotle
It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.
— Henry David Thoreau
If God is in fact separated from the government, then we can never possibly have a godly government. There's no way for America to be good if she's not godly.