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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
Oct 1, 2025
The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.
Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don't.
The 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?
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society. One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a part of the Common Law... There never has been a period in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying its foundations.
We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments.
And whereas 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.
Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.
I ... [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins.
The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.
The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.
Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions.
The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man
...that all may bow to the scepter of our Lord Jesus Christ and that the whole Earth may be filled with his glory.
[The Bible] is the rock on which our Republic rests.
I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.
[The United States is] founded on the principles of Christianity
The fundamental basis of this Nation's law was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings which we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul.
Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.
Inside the Bible's pages lie the answers to all the problems that mankind has ever known. I hope Americans will read and study the Bible.
Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.
Of the many influences that have shaped the United States into a distinctive nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and enduring than the Bible.
In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.
May Heaven to this Union continue its beneficence
We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!
From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible I make no apology.
Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first, the most basic, expression of Americanism. Thus, the founding fathers of America saw it, and thus with God's help, it will continue to be.
Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life.
It can not 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!
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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.
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just
In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
We are the ones we've been waiting for.
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.
The potential for greatness lives within us all.
we are the ones we have been waiting for
It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God.
July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion.
The foundations 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.
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 to implore his protection and favors.
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.