John Quincy Adams, supposedly. I don’t recall if this is a real quote, or one of the quotes that the theocrats have made up out of whole cloth; it hardly matters, anyway. John Q. was all of nine years old when Independence was declared.
Of somewhat greater relevance are these:
“Although the detail of the formation of the American governments is at present little known or regarded either in Europe or in America, it may hereafter become an object of curiosity. It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.” – John Adams, “A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America”, 1787-88.
“And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in shewing that religion & Gov[sup]t[/sup] will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.” – James Madison, letter to Edward Livingston, July 10, 1822
“I contemplate with sovereign reverance that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separtion between church and state.” – Thomas Jefferson, letter to the Baptists of Danbury, Connecticut, 1802
Of even greater relevance are the actual words of the Constitution of the United States. You might want to meditade for a bit on the difference in political philosophy reflected by “We the People…do ordain and establish this Constitution” (as well as “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed” from the Declaration of Independence) and Romans 13:1-2: “Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves.”
If you want to argue about the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Constitution versus the original intent of its authors with regard to this or that issue, go start your own thread in the appropriate forum. Claiming that the writers of the Constitution intended to make this a “Christian nation” is a Big Lie. We don’t have a forum for Big Lies on this board; perhaps you can find yourself a nice Christian Theocrat board somewhere which does.