• I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning.

    Benjamin Franklin: I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning.
    Constitutional Convention Address on Prayer, delivered Thursday, June 28, 1787, Philadelphia, PA