• The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

    John Quincy Adams: The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
    Letter to an autograph collector from Washington on April 27, 1837, The Historical Magazine, archive.org. July 1860.