Lord Acton
"Liberty has not existed outside of Christianity."
John Adams
"We have no government armed with power capable of
contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion... Our constitution was
made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of
any other."
"The church is the moral compass of society."
"We have no constitution which functions in the
absence of a moral people."
John Quincy Adams
"Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled
either by a power within them or by a power without them; either by the word of God or by
the strong arm of man: either by the Bible or by the bayonet."
"The highest glory of the American Revolution was
this: It connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of
civil government with the principles of Christianity.
- On July 4, 1821.
William Blackstone
"This law of nature, being co-_eval with mankind and dictated by
God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the
globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary
to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority,
mediately or immediately, from this original."
- Commentaries on the Law of England (1765)
Edmund Burke
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is
for good men to do nothing."
"Society cannot exist unless a controlling power
upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less it there is within, the more
there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of
intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."
President Calvin Coolidge
"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...."
Lawrence Dennis
"There is not a peace cloud in the war boom sky."
Ken Freeman
Vietnam Veteran and Chairman of Alliance for Citizens Rights (ACR) in
Alabama
"The Ten Commandments summarize the basis of our
structures of government, of our ethics and of our moral codes. To remove them is to
remove the very ground on which we stand as a nation and as a people. We are
gathered here today to say that this is a battle worth fighting! To the enemies of
freedom, we are here to say, 'Thou shalt not' destroy this nation from within. And that
"we the people" shall defend America from all her enemies- foreign or
domestic!"
Patrick Henry
"It cannot 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. For that reason alone, people of other faiths have been
afforded freedom of worship here."
Stonewall Jackson
"Duty is ours. Consequences are God's."
Thomas Jefferson
"God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the
liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a
conviction in the mind of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God?"
"Deemed in other countries incompatible with good
government and yet proved by our experience to be its best support."
"I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple
of the doctrines of Jesus. I have little doubt that our whole country will soon be rallied
to the unity of our creator."
Robert Knight
Culture & Family Institute
"How bad was (the sodomy) decision? It was the most destructive
federal power grab since Roe vs. Wade."
Abraham Lincoln
"We have been the recipients of the choicest
bounties of Heaven...but we have forgotten God......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 proud to pray to the God that made us."
"The only assurance of our national safety is to lay
our foundation in morality and religion."
"To sin by silence when they should protest makes
cowards of men"
James Madison
"We have staked the whole future of American
civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it, we have staked the future of
all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon
the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain
ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that
the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social
life that it would be literally impossible for us to figure ourselves what that life would
be if these standards were removed. We would lose almost all the standards by which we now
judge both public and private morals, all the standards towards which we, with more or
less resolution, strive to raise ourselves."
President Zachary Taylor
"The only ground of hope for the continuance of our free
institutions is in the proper moral and religious training of the children."
David Thorstad
pervert philosopher of NAMBLA (North American Man Boy Love Association) describing the
ultimate goal of the homosexual movement
"Freedom is indivisible. The liberation of children, women,
boy-lovers, and homosexuals in general can only occur as complementary facets of the same
dream."
UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT
Church of the Holy Trinity vs. United States
February 29, 1892 - decision rendered by Justice Josiah Brewer:
"Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be
based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it
should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our
institutions are emphatically Christian."
George Washington
The Father of our Country
"I am sure that never was a people, who had more
reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United
States and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten... the omnipotence of
that God who is alone able to protect them."
"True religion affords to government its surest
support. Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society."
" .... 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.
It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of
popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of
free government. Who that is a sincere friend to it can look with indifference upon
attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric?
Promote then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the
general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force
to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened ....."
(George Washington's Farewell Address in 1796)
"Almighty God; We make our earnest prayer that Thou
wilt keep the United States in Thy holy protection; that Thou wilt incline the hearts of
the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government; and
entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another and for their fellow citizens of
the United states at large.... And finally that Thou wilt most graciously be pleased to
dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity,
humility, and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author
of our blessed religion, and without a humble imitation of whose example in these things
we can never hope to be a happy nation. Grant our supplication, we beseech Thee, through
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen."
"It is impossible to rightly govern the world
without God and the Bible"
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