IN GOD WE TRUST ON U.S. CURRENCY

"No nation can be strong except in the strength of God, or safe except in His defense. The trust of our people in God should be declared on our national coins with a motto expressing in the fewest terms possible this national recognition." —Salmon P. Chase (1861) 6th SCOTUS Chief Justice (nominated by Abraham Lincoln), 25th United States Secretary of the Treasury, United States Senator from Ohio, 23rd Governor of Ohio