Sometimes what has preceded us transcends
anything we can add of subtract from it.
As many selfish and shortsighted
modern Democrats (the ACLU, Michael Moore and
George Soros, Howard Dean, along with other
usurpers and decidedly anti-American groups)
ridicule George W. Bush and humiliate a good and
decent man, Samuel Alito — as they continue to
give aid and comfort to our radical Islamic
enemies — what our forefathers said,
born out of great and sustained adversity, is as
meaningful today as it was then, if not more
so.
Although many leading Democrats
would have you believe our founding history was
not rooted in Christianity, these remarks by our
Founding Fathers prove otherwise. It is
indisputable. Their words eclipse anything more I
can say...
Guy Adams
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"Of all the dispositions and habits which
lead to political prosperity, religion and
morality are indispensable supports. In vain would
that man claim the tribute of patriotism who
should labor to subvert these great pillars of
human happiness — these firmest props of the
duties of men and citizens. The mere politician,
equally with the pious man, ought to respect and
to cherish them. A volume could not trace all
their connections with private and public
felicity. Let it simply be asked, where is the
security for property, for reputation, for life,
if the sense of religious obligation desert the
oaths which are the instruments of investigation
in courts of justice? And let us with caution
indulge the supposition that morality can be
maintained without religion. Whatever may be
conceded to the influence of refined education on
minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience
both forbid us to expect that national morality
can prevail in exclusion of religious
principle."
~
George Washington, Speech on Sept. 17,
1796
"God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can
the liberties of a nation be secure when we have
removed a conviction that these liberties are the
gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when
I reflect that God is just, that His justice
cannot sleep
forever."
~Thomas
Jefferson
"It is religion and morality alone which
can establish the principles upon which freedom
can securely stand. The only foundation of a free
constitution is pure virtue, and if this cannot be
inspired into our People in a greater Measure,
than they have it now, they may change their
Rulers and the forms of Government, but they will
not obtain a lasting
liberty."
~
John Adams
"The longer I live, the more convincing
proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in
the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall
to the ground without His notice, is it probable
that an empire can rise without his aid? We have
been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that
'except the Lord build the House, they labor in
vain that build it.'"
~
Benjamin Franklin
"Were my soul trembling on the wing of
eternity, were this hand freezing to death, were
my voice choking with the last struggle, I would
still, with the last gasp of that voice, implore
you to remember the truth: God has given America
to be free."
~
Patrick Henry
"And whereas it is the duty of nations as
well as of men, to own their dependence upon the
overruling power of God, to confess their sins and
transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured
hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy
and pardon; 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."
~
Abraham Lincoln
"Let us look forward to the time when we
can take the flag of our country and nail it below
the Cross, and there let it wave as it waved in
the olden times, and let us gather around it and
inscribed for our motto: 'Liberty and Union, one
and inseparable, now and forever,' and exclaim,
'Christ first, our country
next!'"
~
Andrew Johnson
"We cannot read the history of our rise
and development as a nation, without reckoning
with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping
the advances of the Republic. Where we have been
the truest and most consistent in obeying its
precepts, we have attained the greatest measure of
contentment and
prosperity."
~
Franklin Roosevelt
"Without God, there is no virtue, because
there's no prompting of the conscience. Without
God, we're mired in the material, that flat world
that tells us only what the senses perceive.
Without God, there is a coarsening of the society.
And without God, democracy will not and cannot
long endure. If we ever forget that we're one
nation under God, then we will be a nation gone
under."
~
Ronald Reagan
For more about our founding history, read
One
Nation Under God by
David C. Gibbs and Jerry
Newcombe.
