Patrick Henry
It cannot be emphasized too strongly or
too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists,
but by Christians, not on religions but on the gospel of Jesus
Christ!
John Quincy Adams
The highest glory of the American Revolution
was this: that it connected in one indissoluble bond civil government
with the principles of Christianity.
Noah Webster
The moral principles and precepts contained
in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions
and laws. All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice,
crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed
from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in
the Bible.
James Madison
We have staked the future of government
not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked
the future of all of our political institutions on the capacity
of each and all of us to govern ourselves according to the ten
commandments of God.
George Washington
It is impossible to rightly govern the
world without God and the Bible.... No people can be bound to
acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs
of men more than the people of the United States. Every step
by which they have advanced to the
character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished
by some token of providential agency ... We ought to be no less
persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected
on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right,
which Heaven itself has ordained.
John Adams
Our Constitution was made only for a moral
and religious people. So great is my veneration of the Bible
that the earlier my children begin to read it, the more confident
will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their
country and respectful members of society.
Thomas Jefferson
The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty.
A student's perusal of the sacred volume will make him a better
citizen, a better father, a better husband.
Abraham Lincoln
The Bible is the best gift God has ever
given to man . . . But for it we could not know right from wrong.
It is the duty of nations, as well as of
men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God
and to recognize the sublime truth announced in the Holy Scriptures
and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed
whose God is the Lord.
The philosophy of the school room in one
generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Andrew Jackson
The Bible is the rock on which
our Republic rests.
Ulysses S. Grant
Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet anchor
of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts and practice
them in your lives. To the influence of this book we are indebted
for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we
must look as our guide in the future.
Benjamin Franklin
A nation of well informed men who have
been taught to know the price of the rights which God has given
them, cannot be enslaved.
George Mason, at the Constitutional
Congress
As nations cannot be rewarded or punished
in the next world, they must be in this. . . . by an inevitable
chain of causes and effects Providence punishes national sins
by national calamities.
Thomas Jefferson
I tremble for my country when I consider
that God is just and his justice cannot sleep forever.
Theodore Roosevelt
In this actual world, a churchless community,
a community where men have abandoned and scoff at, or ignore
their Christian duties, is a community on the rapid downgrade.
Woodrow Wilson
A nation which does not remember what it
was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is
trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not
know where we came from or what we have been about.
Charles Finney
The church must take right ground in regard
to politics. Politics are a part of a religion in a country as
this, and Christians must do their duty to the country as part
of their duty to God. . . . He will bless or curse this nation
according to the course Christians take in politics.