A few more words from our Founding Fathers
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“An appeal to arms and the God of hosts is
all that is left us. But we shall not fight our battle alone.
There is a just God that presides over the destinies of nations.
The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone. Is life so dear or
peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
Forbid it almighty God. I know not what course others may take,
but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.”
Patrick Henry
1775
“It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too
often that this great Nation was founded not by religionists,
but by Christians; not on religious, but on the Gospel of Jesus
Christ. For that reason alone, people of other faiths have been
afforded freedom of worship here.”
Patrick Henry
1776
“I am a real Christian, that is to say, a
disciple of the doctrines of Jesus. I have little doubt that our
whole country will soon be rallied to the unity of our Creator
and, I hope, to the pure doctrine of Jesus also.”
Thomas Jefferson
Written on the cover of his personal Bible
“It is impossible to govern the world without
God and the Bible. Of all the dispositions and habits that lead
to political prosperity, our religion and morality are the indispensable
supporters. Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality
can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both
forbid us to expect that our national morality can prevail in
exclusion of religious principle.”
George Washington
Farewell Speech
Sept. 19, 1796
“Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my
thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate
blood of the Lamb and purge my heart by thy Holy Spirit. Daily,
frame me more and more in the likeness of thy son, Jesus Christ,
that living in thy fear, and dying in thy favor, I may in thy
appointed time obtain the resurrection of the justified unto eternal
life. Bless, O Lord, the whole race of mankind and let the world
be filled with the knowledge of thee and thy son, Jesus Christ.”
George Washington
Written in his personal prayer book
We have no government armed with the power capable of contending
with human passions, unbridled by morality and true religion. Our
Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It
is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
John Adams
2nd US President
“The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it
connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government
with the principles of Christianity.”
John Quincy Adams
6th US President
“The foundations of our society and our government rest so
much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to
support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically
universal in our country.”
Calvin Coolidge
30th US President
"The Congress of the United States recommends and approves
the Holy Bible for use in all schools.”
US Congress
1782
“We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon
the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future
of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of
ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles
of the Ten Commandments.”
James Madison
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