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Franklin Pierce (1804-1869), the 14th President of the United States, asserted in his Inaugural Address, March 4, 1853:

"Recognizing the wisdom of the broad principles of absolute religious toleration proclaimed in our fundamental law, and rejoicing in the benign influence which it has exerted upon our social and political condition, I should shrink from a clear duty if I failed to express my deepest conviction that we can place no secure reliance upon any apparent progress if it be not sustained by national integrity, resting upon the great truths affirmed and illustrated by Divine Revelation." ¹

He concluded the address at his inauguration by acknowledging his:

"Dependence upon God and His overruling providence." ²

¹ March 4, 1853, in his Inaugural Address.  Stephen Abbott Northrop, D.D., A Cloud of Witnesses (Portland, OR: American Heritage Ministries, 1987), p. 361.

² Inaugural Address, March 4, 1853.  Benjamin Weiss, God in American History: A Documentation of America's Religious Heritage (Grand Rapids, Ml: Zondervan, 1966), p. 86.  Willard Cantelon, Money Master of the World (Plainfield, NJ: Logos International, 1976), p. 120.