“Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only lawbook, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! ... What a Utopia; what a Paradise would this region be!” —President John Adams, February 22, 1756, diary, quoted in The World Treasury of Religous Quotations, edited and compiled by Ralph L. Woods (New York, New York: Garland Books, 1966), 76