Other Quotes
John Adams (1735-1826) Second
President of the United States
"The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed
or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of Wisdom, Virtue, Equity,
and Humanity." (11)
"It is the duty of the clergy to accommodate their discourses to the
times, to preach against such sins as are most prevalent, and recommend such
virtues as are most wanted." (12)
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) Sixth
President of the United States
"Posterity (to all future generations) you will never know how much
it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good
use of it." (13)
"...so great is my veneration for the Bible, and so strong my belief,...that
the earlier my children begin to read it, the more steadily they pursue the
practice of reading it throughout their lives, the more lively and confident
will be my hopes that they will prove useful citizens to their country, respectable
members of society, and a real blessing to their parents." (14)
Samuel Adams (1722-1803) "Father
of the American Revolution"
"He who is void of virtuous attachment in private life is, or very soon
will be, void of all regard for his country." (15)
"Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that
he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual - - or
at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most
solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his
country." (16)
"The rights of the colonist as Christians...may be best understood by
reading and carefully studying the institution of The Great Lawgiver and Head
of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated
in the New Testament." (17)
Elias Boudinot (1740-1821) President
of the Continental Congress
"You have been instructed form your childhood in the knowledge of your
lost state by nature; the absolute necessity of a change of heart, and an
entire renovation of soul to the image of Jesus Christ; of salvation thro'
His meritorious righteousness only; and the indispensable necessity of personal
holiness without which no man shall see the Lord." (18)
Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) Thirtieth
President of the United States
"The foundation 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."
(19)
Colonel David Crockett (1786-1836) Frontiersman
& Congressman
"I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has no power
to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member on this floor
knows it. We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own
money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right
to appropriate a dollar of the public money." (20)
Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) Thirty-Fourth
President of the United States
"The spirit of men is more important than physical strength, and the
spiritual fiber of a nation than is wealth." (21)
Everett Hale (1822-1909) Teacher,
Author & Minister
"I am only one, but I am one, I cannot do everything, but I can do something.
What I can do, I should do and with the help of God, I will do." (22)
Harvard University (1642)
"Let every Student be plainly instructed, and earnestly pressed to consider
well, the main end of his life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ
which is eternal life." (23)
Patrick Henry (1736-1799) American
Revolutionary Leader
"This is all the inheritance I can give to my dear family. The religion
of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed." (24)
James Iredell (1751-1799) Supreme
Court Justice
"I think the Christian religion is a Divine institution; and I pray
to God that I may never forget the precepts of His religion or suffer the
appearance of an inconsistency in my principle and practice." (25)
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third
President of the United States
"...and the political adventurers, who have lost the chance of swindling
and plunder in the waste of public money, will never cease to bawl on the
breaking up of their sanctuary." (26)
"My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessing they
are in possession of, and which no other people on earth have." (27)
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) Thirty-Fifth
President of the United States
"The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but form
the hand of God." (28)
Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) General
of Confederate Army
"Knowing that intercessory prayer is our mightiest weapon and the supreme
call for all Christians today, I pleadingly urge our people everywhere to
pray. ... Let us pray for our nation. Let us pray for those who have never
known Jesus Christ and redeeming love, for moral forces everywhere, for our
national leaders. Let prayer be our passion. Let prayer be our practice."
(29)
"I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself."
(30)
"My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian."
(31)
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Sixteenth
President of the United States
"We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven. We
have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown
in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But 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! It behooves
us, then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national
sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness." (32)
Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) Supreme
Commander-Allied Forces in the Pacific during WWII
"History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject
to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline."
(33)
James Madison (1751-1836) Fourth
President of the United States & Chief Architect of the Constitution
"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution
which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence,
the money of their constituents." (34)
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) Father
of the Science for Hydrostatics
"How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian? If, when he
dies, there turns out to be no God and his faith was in vain, he has lost
nothing - in fact, he has been happier in life than his non-believing friends.
If, however, there is a God and a heaven and hell, then he has gained heaven
and his skeptical friends will have lost everything in hell!" (35)
Ronald Reagan Fortieth President
of the United States
"If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be
a Nation gone under." (36)
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) Twenty-Sixth
President of the United States
"I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance
the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism."
(37)
Benjamin Rush (1745-1813) Signer
of Declaration & Father of Public Schools
"My only hope of salvation is in the infinite, transcendent love of
God manifested to the world by the death of His Son upon the Cross. Nothing
but His blood will wash away my sins. I rely exclusively upon it. Come, Lord
Jesus! Come quickly!" (38)
"I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration,
but I am perfectly satisfied that the Union of the States in its form and
adoption is as much the work of a Devine Providence as any of the miracles
recorded in the Old and New Testaments." (39)
Roger Sherman (1721-1793) Signer
of all four (4) major founding documents
"I believe that there is one only living and true God, existing in three
persons, the Father, the Son, an the Holy Ghost, the same in substance, equal
in power and glory. That the Scriptures of the old and new testaments are
a revelation from God and a complete rule to direct us how we may glorify
and enjoy Him." (40)
Joseph Story (1779-1845) U.S. Congressman
& Supreme Court Justice
"There is not a truth to be gathered from history more certain, or more
momentous, than this: that civil liberty cannot long be separated from religious
liberty without danger, and ultimately without destruction to both. Wherever
religious liberty exists, it will, first or last, bring in and establish political
liberty." (41)
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) French
philosopher who visited America during the American Revolution
"Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits
flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power.
America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be
good, America will cease to be great." (42)
George Washington (1732-1799) First
President of the United States
"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity
religion and morality are indispensable supports." (43)
"It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of almighty
God, to obey His will, to be grateful for benefits, and humbly to implore
His protection, aid, and favors." (44)
"Without a humble imitation of the characteristics of the Divine Author
of our blessed religion, we can never hope to be a happy nation." (45)
Noah Webster (1758-1843) Author
of Webster's Dictionary
"The most perfect maxims and examples for regulating your social conduct
and domestic economy, as well as the best rules of morality and religion,
are to be found in the BibleÉThe moral principles and precepts found in the
scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitution and laws.
These principles and precepts have truth, immutable truth, for their foundationÉAll
the evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression,
slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained
in the BibleÉFor instruction then in social, religious and civil duties resort
to the scriptures for the best precepts." (46)
James Wilson (1742-1798) Signer
of the Constitution
"Human law must rest its authority ultimately upon the authority for
that law which is divine...Far from being rivals or enemies, religion and
law are twin sisters, friends, and mutual assistants. Indeed, these two sciences
run into each other. (47)
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) Twenty-Eighth
President of the United States
"Here is the nation God has builded by our hands. What shall we do with
it?" (48)
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