United States Founding Fathers

William Paterson

Quotes

Age of Reason - by Thomas Paine

1. "[Upon hearing that some Americans seemed to agree with Paine's work he stated:] Infatuated Americans, why renounce your country, your religion, and your God? Oh shame, where is thy blush? [Jerimiah 6:15, 8:12] Is this the way to continue independent, and to render the 4th of July immortal in memory and song?"- United States Founding Father, Signer of the Constitution, United States Senator - Bill of Rights, United States Supreme Court Justice, William Paterson, "William Paterson: Lawyer and Statesman", John E. O'Conner, (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1979), p. 244, from a 4th of July Oration in 1798

Government

1. "Religion and morality ... [are] necessary to good government, good order, and good laws, for "when the righteous are in authority the people rejoice"[Proverbs 29:2]."- United States Founding Father, Signer of the Constitution, United States Senator - Bill of Rights, United States Supreme Court Justice, William Paterson, "United States Oracle", Portsmouth, New Hampshire, May 24, 1800, "The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800", Maeva Marcus, editor, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988), Vol. III, p. 436

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