Other Warnings
John Adams (1735-1826) Second
President of the United States
"...If 'Thou shalt not covet,' and 'Thou shalt not steal,' were not
commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society,
before it can be civilized or made free." (50)
Elias Boudinot (1740-1821)
ŅIf the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character
must soon follow.....These considerations should lead to an attentive solitude...to
be religiously careful in our choice of all public officers.... and judge
of the tree by its fruits. (51)
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Leader
in Great Britain during American Revolution
"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."
(52)
"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and
by parts." (53)
"No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because
he could only do a little." (54)
"When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one
by one, and unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." (55)
" All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to
do nothing." (56)
Whitaker Chambers (1901-1961) American
Journalist
"Humanism is not new. It is in fact, man's second oldest faith. It's
promise was whispered in the first days of creation under the Tree of the
Knowledge of Good and Evil: Ye shall be as gods." (57)
Rev. Charles Finney (1792- 1875) Attorney
Turned Evangelist
"The Church must take right ground to politics... The time has come
for Christians to vote for honest men, and take consistent ground in politics
or the Lord will curse them...God cannot sustain this free and blessed country,
which we love and pray for, unless the church will take right ground. Politics
are a part of religion in such a country as this, and Christians must do this
duty to their country as part of this duty to God...God will bless or curse
this nation according to the course Christians take in politics." (58)
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Signer
of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (60)
"I also believe that without His concurring aid, we shall succeed in
the political building no better than the builders of Babel; we shall be divided
by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we, ourselves
shall become a reproach and a bye word down to future ages." (61)
Patrick Henry (1736-1799) American
Revolutionary Leader
"Whether this [new government] will prove a blessing or a curse will
depend upon the use our people make of the blessings, which a gracious God
hath bestowed on us. If they are wise they will be great and happy... If they
are of a contrary character, they will be miserable. Righteousness alone can
exalt them as a nation [Proverbs 14:34]. Reader! Who ever thou art, remember
this, and in thy sphere practice virtue." (62)
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third
President of the United States
"... if we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the
responsibility of every American to be informed." (63)
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government
from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of
them" (64)
"No man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason
for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort,
to protect themselves against tyranny in government." (65)
"Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to right
by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights." (66)
C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) Twentieth
Century Christian Knight
"There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God,
'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.'
All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no
Hell." (67)
James Madison (1751-1836) Fourth
President of the United States & Chief Architect of the Constitution
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom
of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by
violent and sudden usurpations." (68)
Peter Marshall (1902-1949) Chaplin
of U.S. Senate
"The choice before us is plain, Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise,
discipline or disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about our rights
and privileges as American citizens. The time is come, it now is, when we
ought to hear about the duties and responsibilities of our citizenship. America's
future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating God's government."
(69)
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) Writer
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series
of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." (70)
Jedediah Morse (1761-1826) Patriot
& "Father of American Geography"
"To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil
freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys...whenever
the pillars of Christianity shall be over thrown, our present republican forms
of government, and all blessings which flow form them must fall with them"
(71)
Benjamin Rush (1745-1813) Signer
of the Declaration of Independence & "Father of Public Schools"
"Remember that national crimes require national punishments, and without
declaring what punishment awaits this evil, you may venture to assure them
that it cannot pass with impunity, unless God shall cease to be just or merciful."
(72)
"Let the children... be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations
of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education. The
great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more
effectual means of extirpating [removing] Christianity from the world than
by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools."
(73)
Gene Edward Veith, Jr. (1951 - ) Professor
of English
"Instead of preaching that leads to the conviction of sin and salvation
through the cross of Jesus Christ, churches preach "feel-good" messages
designed to cheer people up. Some have described postmodernist culture as
a "therapeutic culture," in which a sense of psychological well-being,
not truth, is the controlling value. The contemporary church likewise faces
the temptation to replace theology with therapy." (74)
Daniel Webster (1782-1852) American
Politician and Diplomat
"...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." (75)
Noah Webster (1758-1843) Author
of Webster's Dictionary
"...the principles of all genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations
are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by its authority. The man therefore
who weakens or destroys the divine authority of that book may be accessory
to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer..." (76)
"...if a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and
happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the divine commands, and
elect bad men to make and administer the laws." (77)
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) Twenty-Eighth
President of the United States
"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..."
(78)
John Witherspoon (1723-1794) Signer
of Declaration of Independence
"The people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of
those whom they invest with authority either in the legislative, executive,
or judicial branches." (79)
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