Noah Webster wrote to David McClure, October 25, 1836: "In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.”
Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall prayed: "May freedom be seen not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to please to do what is right. May it be ever understood that our liberty is under God and can be found nowhere else. May our faith be something that is not merely stamped upon our coins, but expressed in our lives."
Executive Orders are not specifically mentioned in the Constitution, but Article 2, Section 3, does say the President is to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed."
President McKinley approved a Resolution of Congress, April 20, 1898: "Whereas the abhorrent conditions which have existed for more than three years in the island of Cuba, so near our own borders, have shocked the moral sense of the people of the United States, have been a disgrace to Christian civilization ..."
Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Anna Murray-Douglass, Mary Ellen Pleasant, Clara Brown, Biddy Mason, Maggie Lena Walker, Anne Malone, Madam C.J. Walker