"Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man" – Thomas Jefferson
"Lighthouses are more useful than churches" – Benjamin Franklin
"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it." – John Adams
From the Treaty of Tripoli, ratified unanimously in the Senate and signed by John Adams into law, 1797: "The United States of America is in no sense founded on the Christian Religion."