That book [Bible], sir, is the rock on which our republic rests.
Source: In The New Webster's Dictionary of Quotations and Famous Phrases, by Donald Bolander, 1987.
-- Andrew Jackson, (Mar 15 1767-1845), US president (7th), soldier, lawyer, planter; He was Old Hickory and the military hero of the War of 1812; he introduced the spoils system and boosted expansionism.