-Thomas Jefferson, excerpts are inscribed on the walls of the Jefferson Memorial in the nations capital
"The preservation of Christianity as a national religion is abstracted from its own intrinsic truth, of the utmost consequence to the civil state, which a single instance will sufficiently demonstrate."
-Sir William Blackstone. Blackstone's Commentaries on the Law was the recognized authority on the law for well over a century.
"It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains."
-Patrick Henry
"Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom."
-Patrick Henry
"Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly implore His protection and favor."
-George Washington
"Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower"We the People are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."
-Abraham Lincoln
"If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper, but if we and our posterity neglect its instruction and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity."
-Daniel Webster
"Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever, That a revolution of the wheel of fortune, a change of situation, is among possible events, that it may become probable by Supernatural influence! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in that event."
-Thomas Jefferson
"The battle, Sir, is not the strong alone, it is the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Besides, Sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable, and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!
-Patrick Henry
"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day."
-Abraham Lincoln
"I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man."
-Alexander Hamilton, signer of the Declaration of Independence and Ratifier of the US Constitution
"We have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us."
-Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation
"While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of a Christan."
-George Washington
"While we give praise to God, the Supreme Disposer of all events, for his interposition on our behalf, let us guard against the dangerous errors of trusting in, or boasting of, an arm of flesh. If your cause is just, if your principles are pure, and if your conduct is prudent, you need not fear the multitude of opposing hosts."
-John Witherspoon Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Clergyman, and President of Princeton University
"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home."
- James Madison
"For my own part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution a system which with out the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests."
- Alexander Hamilton after the Constitutional Convention
"I have always thought that all men should be free, but if any should be slaves, it should first be those who desire it for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. When ever I hear anyone arguing for slavery , I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on them personally."
- Abraham Lincoln
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
- Abraham Lincoln
"When we view the blessings of with which our country has been favored, those which we now enjoy, and the means which we possess of handing them down unimpaired to our latest posterity, our attention is irresistibly drawn to the source from whence they flow. Let us then, unite in offering our most grateful acknowledgements for these blessings to the Divine Author of all Good."
- James Monroe
"The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.
- John Adams
"The Bible will also inform them that our gracious Creator has provided for us a Redeemer, in whom all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, that this Redeemer has made atonement for the sins of the whole world, and thereby reconciling the Divine justice with the Divine mercy has opened a way for our redemption and salvation, and that these inestimable benefits are of the free gift and grace of God, not of our deserving, nor in our power to deserve."
- John Jay, First Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court and President of the American Bible Society.
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