المبادئ العامة التي حقّق بها الآباء المؤسسون الاستقلال كانت المبادئ العامة للمسيحية.

“The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity”John Adams — The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations (1856)