Quotes of the Founders
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James Rusll Lowell was asked by the French historian Francois Guizot, "How long will the American republic endure?" His reply? "As long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue to dominate."
溜溜球的玩法Tho ideas can be discovered through the words of the founders themlves.
We have tried to compile, according to topic, quotations of tho who helped to ttle and found our nation. This link will continue to be updated and upgraded as we ek to provide you with the resources you need to understand the strong Christian and Biblical worldview held by tho who established this nation.单亲妈妈2
Original Godly Vision for this Nation.
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"As one small candle may light a thousand, so the light kindled here has shown unto many, ye in some sort to our whole nation."
John Winthrop, aboard the ship Arabella lying off the shore of Massachutts, wrote in 1630: ("A City On a Hill")
For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal fally with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cau Him to withdraw His prent help from us, we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world. We shall open the mouths of enemies to speak evil of the ways of God, and all professors for God's sake. We shall shame the faces of many of God's worthy rvants, and cau their prayers to be turned into curs upon us till we be consumed out of the good land whither we are going. ... Therefore let us choo life, that we and our ed may live, by obeying His voice and cleaving to Him, for He is our life and our prosperity.
Founders wanted to Encourage Christianity.
Supreme Court Justice Joph Story:
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"Probably at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, and of the amendment to it . . . the general, if not the universal ntiment in America was that Christianity ought to receive encouragement from the state, so far as was not incompatible with the private rights of conscience and the freedom of religious worship. An attempt to level all religions, and to make it a matter of state policy to hold all in utter indifference, would have created universal disapprobation if not universal indignation."
God's Law is the only Basis for true Liberty.
"Tho who will not be governed by God, will be ruled by tyrants." William Penn
"The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. All the miries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible." Noah Webster
". . . the liberties of a nation [cannot] be thought cure when we have removed their only
firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that their liberties are the gift of God." - Thomas Jefferson (p. 7, chap 10 Constitution book)
"Statesmen may plan and speculate liberty, but it is religion and morality alone upon which freedom can curely stand. A patriot must be a religious man." John Adams
Value America Placed on the Bible.
NOTE: The first official act of the Continental Congress was to authorize the printing of 20,000 Bibles to be given to the Indians.
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"The Bible came with them. And it is not to be doubted, that to free and universal reading of the Bible, in that age, men were much indebted for right views of civil liberty. The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God; but it is also a book which teaches man his own individual r
esponsibility, his own dignity, and his equality with his fellow-man." Webster, Bunker Hill Address.
Religion and Government are Inparable.
A. Biblical Truth.
"Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty" 2 Corinthians 3:17
B. Founder's Views Consistent
NOTE: All 13 of the original state constitutions either refer to Almighty God as the author of liberty or declare reliance upon the hand and mercy of Providence.
"He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of Christianity will change the face of the world." Benjamin Franklin
"It is impossible to rightly govern . . . without God and the Bible." -- George Washington
杭州亚运会场馆"The propitious [favorable] smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itlf has ordained."President George Washington
"Of all the dispositions and habits that lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports . . . ." --George Washington
