Here's an historically interesting little quote:
“There is a mighty task before us and it welds us together. It is to make the United States a mighty Christian Nation, and to Christianize the world.”
— Woodrow Wilson.
(HT: Jonah Goldberg)
I posted the above and then realized that the subject of an alleged theocratic threat has achieved hysteria-like levels in certain contemporary circles. Rich Lowry over at National Review Online has an excellent article surveying the facts and calming the fears. He mentions, but doesn't link to, Ross Douthat in First Things, "Theocracy, Theocracy, Theocracy" and Peter Steinfels in the American Prospect, "Be Not Afraid".