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	'While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.\-George Washington First US President. The Writings of Washington, pages 342\-343.',
	'Suppose a nation in some distant Region should take the Bible for their only law Book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited\! Every member would be obliged in conscience, to temperance, frugality, and industry, to justice, kindness, and charity towards his fellow men, and to piety, love, and reverence toward Almighty God. What a Eutopia, what a Paradise would this region be.\-John Adams 2nd US President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, Vol. III, page 9.',
	'The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.\-John Adams 2nd US President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Adams wrote this on June 28 1813, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson.',
	'The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever.\-John Adams wrote this in a letter to his wife, Abigail, on July 3, 1776.',
	'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 minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God\? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath\? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever, That a revolution of the wheel of fortune, a change of situation, is among possible events, that it may become probable by Supernatural influence\! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in that event.\-Thomas Jefferson 3rd US President, Drafter and Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII, page 237.',
	'I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus Christ. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, page 385.',
	'Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual. Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.\-John Hancock 1st Signer of the Declaration of Independence History of the United States of America, Vol II, page 229.',
	'Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped.\-Benjamin Franklin, Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Unites States Constitution.',
	'That the most acceptable service we render to him is in doing good to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this. These I take to be the fundamental points in all sound religion, and I regard them as you do in whatever sect I meet with them.\-Benjamin Franklin, Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Unites States Constitution.',
	'As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of morals and his religion, as he left them to us, is the best the world ever saw, or is likely to see.\-Benjamin Franklin 
Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Unites States Constitution ',
	'But I apprehend it has received various corrupting changes, and I have, with most of the present dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity, though it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the truth with less trouble. I see no harm, however, in its being believed, if that belief has the good consequence, as probably it has, of making his doctrines more respected and more observed, especially as I do not perceive, that the Supreme takes it amiss, by distinguishing the unbelievers in his government of the world with any peculiar marks of his displeasure.\-Benjamin Franklin wrote this in a letter to Ezra Stiles, President of Yale University on March 9 1790.',
	'And as it is our duty to extend our wishes to the happiness of the great family of man, I conceive that we cannot better express ourselves than by humbly supplicating the Supreme Ruler of the world that the rod of tyrants may be broken to pieces, and the oppressed made free again, that wars may cease in all the earth, and that the confusions that are and have been among nations may be overruled by promoting and speedily bringing on that holy and happy period when the kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ may be everywhere established, and all people everywhere willingly bow to the sceptre of Him who is Prince of Peace.\-Samuel Adams as Governor of Massachusetts, Proclamation of a Day of Fast, March 20, 1797.',
	'Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.\-James Madison 
4th U.S. President.',
	'When we view the blessings with which our country has been favored, those which we now enjoy, and the means which we possess of handing them down unimpaired to our latest posterity, our attention is irresistibly drawn to the source from whence they flow. Let us then, unite in offering our most grateful acknowledgements for these blessings to the Divine Author of All Good.\-James Monroe made this statement in his 2nd Annual Message to Congress, November 16 1818.', 
	'The hope of a Christian is inseparable from his faith. Whoever believes in the divine inspiration of the Holy Scriptures must hope that the religion of Jesus shall prevail throughout the earth. Never since the foundation of the world have the prospects of mankind been more encouraging to that hope than they appear to be at the present time. And may the associated distribution of the Bible proceed and prosper till the Lord shall have made bare His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.\-John Quincy Adams 6th US President Life of John Quincy Adams, page 248.', 
	'I do declare to the whole world that we believe the Scriptures to contain a declaration of the mind and will of God in and to those ages in which they were written, being given forth by the Holy Ghost moving in the hearts of holy men of God, that they ought also to be read, believed, and fulfilled in our day, being used for reproof and instruction, that the man of God may be perfect. They are a declaration and testimony of heavenly things themselves, and, as such, we carry a high respect for them. We accept them as the words of God Himself.\-William Penn, Founder of Pennsylvania. Treatise of the Religion of the Quakers, page 355.',
	'I believe that there is one only living and true God, existing in three persons, the Father, the Son, and 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. That God has foreordained whatsoever comes to pass, so as thereby he is not the author or approver of sin. That he creates all things, and preserves and governs all creatures and all their actions, in a manner perfectly consistent with the freedom of will in moral agents, and the usefulness of means. That he made man at first perfectly holy, that the first man sinned, and as he was the public head of his posterity, they all became sinners in consequence of his first transgression, are wholly indisposed to that which is good and inclined to evil, and on account of sin are liable to all the miseries of this life, to death, and to the pains of hell forever.\-Roger Sherman, Signer of the Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution.',
	'I believe that God having elected some of mankind to eternal life, did send his own Son to become man, die in the room and stead of sinners and thus to lay a foundation for the offer of pardon and salvation to all mankind, so as all may be saved who are willing to accept the gospel offer, also by his special grace and spirit, to regenerate, sanctify and enable to persevere in holiness, all who shall be saved, and to procure in consequence of their repentance and faith in himself their justification by virtue of his atonement as the only meritorious cause.\-Roger Sherman, Signer of the Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution.', 
	'I believe a visible church to be a congregation of those who make a credible profession of their faith in Christ, and obedience to him, joined by the bond of the covenant.\-Roger Sherman, Signer of the Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution.',
	'I believe that the souls of believers are at their death made perfectly holy, and immediately taken to glory, that at the end of this world there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a final judgement of all mankind, when the righteous shall be publicly acquitted by Christ the Judge and admitted to everlasting life and glory, and the wicked be sentenced to everlasting punishment.\-Roger Sherman, Signer of the Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution.',
	'The Gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation of life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations\!\-Benjamin Rush Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Ratifier of the US Constitution. The Autobiography of Benjamin Rush, pages 165\-166.',
	'Christianity is the only true and perfect religion, and that in proportion as mankind adopts its principles and obeys its precepts, they will be wise and happy.\-Benjamin Rush Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Ratifier of the US Constitution. Essays, Literary, Moral, and Philosophical, published in 1798.', 
	'I know there is an objection among many people to teaching children doctrines of any kind, because they are liable to be controverted. But let us not be wiser than our Maker.\-Benjamin Rush Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Ratifier of the US Constitution.',
	'If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into all the world would have been unnecessary. The perfect morality of the Gospel rests upon the doctrine which, though often controverted has never been refuted, I mean the vicarious life and death of the Son of God.\-Benjamin Rush Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Ratifier of the US Constitution.Essays, Literary, Moral, and Philosophical, published in 1798.', 
	'While we give praise to God, the Supreme Disposer of all events, for His interposition on our behalf, let us guard against the dangerous error of trusting in, or boasting of, an arm of flesh. If your cause is just, if your principles are pure, and if your conduct is prudent, you need not fear the multitude of opposing hosts.\-John Witherspoon Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Clergyman and President of Princeton University.',  
	'What follows from this\? That he is the best friend to American liberty, who is most sincere and active in promoting true and undefiled religion, and who sets himself with the greatest firmness to bear down profanity and immorality of every kind.\-John Witherspoon Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Clergyman and President of Princeton University.',
	'Whoever is an avowed enemy of God, I scruple not to call him an enemy of his country.\-John Witherspoon Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Clergyman and President of Princeton University. Sermon at Princeton University. The Dominion of Providence over the Passions of Men, May 17 1776.',
	'I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man.\-Alexander Hamilton, signer of the Declaration of Independence and Ratifier of the US Constitution. Famous American Statesmen, page 126.', 
	'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 this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.\-Patrick Henry, Ratifier of the US Constitution,
The Trumpet Voice of Freedom, Patrick Henry of Virginia, page iii.', 
	'The Bible is a book worth more than all the other books that were ever printed.\-Patrick Henry, Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry, page 402.',
	'By conveying the Bible to people thus circumstanced, we certainly do them a most interesting kindness. We thereby enable them to learn that man was originally created and placed in a state of happiness, but, becoming disobedient, was subjected to the degradation and evils which he and his posterity have since experienced.\-John Jay 
First Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court and President of the American Bible Society.',
	'The Bible will also inform them that our gracious Creator has provided for us a Redeemer, in whom all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, that this Redeemer has made atonement for the sins of the whole world, and thereby reconciling the Divine justice with the Divine mercy has opened a way for our redemption and salvation, and that these inestimable benefits are of the free gift and grace of God, not of our deserving, nor in our power to deserve.\-John Jay First Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court and President of the American Bible Society. In God We Trust, The Religious Beliefs and Ideas of the American Founding Fathers, page 379.',
	'In forming and settling my belief relative to the doctrines of Christianity, I adopted no articles from creeds but such only as, on careful examination, I found to be confirmed by the Bible.\-John Jay First Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court and President of the American Bible Society. American Statesman Series, page 360.',
	'The highest glory of the American Revolution was this, that it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.\-John Quincy Adams.',
	'The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty. A student\'s perusal of the sacred volume will make him a better citizen, a better father, a better husband.\-Thomas Jefferson.',
	'The Bible is the rock on which our Republic rests.\-Andrew Jackson.',
	'In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government, ought to be instructed.\-Noah Webster.',
	'We have staked the future of American civilization upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.\-James Madison.',
	'He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.\-Benjamin Franklin.',
	'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.\-Patrick Henry.',
	'The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and His apostles. To this we owe our free constitutions of government.\-Noah Webster.',
	'Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed the conviction that these liberties are the gift of God\?\-Thomas Jefferson.',
	'Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almight God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly implore His protection and favor.\-George Washington.',
	'Suppose a nation in some distant Region should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. What a utopia, what a paradise would this region be.\-John Adams.',
	'Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.\-John Adams.',
	'We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus\!\-John Adams.',
	'The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principals of Christianity. I will avow that I believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.\-John Adams.',
	'July fourth ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.\-John Adams in a letter written to Abigail on the day the Declaration was approved by Congress.',
	'We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.\-John Adams on October 11 1798.', 
	'I have examined all religions, as well as my narrow sphere, my straightened means, and my busy life, would allow, and the result is that the Bible is the best Book in the world. It contains more philosophy than all the libraries I have seen.\-John Adams, December 25 1813 letter to Thomas Jefferson', 
	'Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating their little boys and girls, inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity, and leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system.\-John Adams October 4 1790.',
	'Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day the Fourth of July\? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior\? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation\? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer\'s mission upon earth\? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity\?\-John Quincy Adams 1837, when he delivered a Fourth of July speech at Newburyport, Massachusetts.',
	'The Law given from Sinai, The Ten Commandments, was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.\-John Quincy Adams. Letters to his son. Page 61.',
	'Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time, they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments.\-Charles Carroll, signer of the Declaration of Independence. To James McHenry on November 4 1800.',
	'God governs in the affairs of man. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid\? We have been assured in the Sacred Writings that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly believe this. I also believe that, without His concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel\-Benjamin Franklin, Constitutional Convention of 1787 original manuscript of this speech.',  
	'In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection. Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. Do we imagine we no longer need His assistance\?\-Benjamin Franklin.', 
	'For my own part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.\-Alexander Hamilton in 1787 after the Constitutional Convention.',
	'I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man.\-Alexander Hamilton.',
	'I have a tender reliance on the mercy of the Almighty, through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am a sinner. I look to Him for mercy, pray for me.\-Alexander Hamilton, on July 12 1804 at his death.', 
	'This is all the inheritance I can give my dear family. The religion of Christ can give them one which will make them rich indeed.\-The Last Will and Testament of Patrick Henry.',
	'Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers\-John Jay.',
	'Whether our religion permits Christians to vote for infidel rulers is a question which merits more consideration than it seems yet to have generally received either from the clergy or the laity. It appears to me that what the prophet said to Jehoshaphat about his attachment to Ahab, Shouldest thou help the ungodly and love them that hate the Lord\? This affords a salutary lesson.\-John Jay.',
	'The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.\-Thomas Jefferson.',
	'Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as that of Jesus.\-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 minds of the people that these liberties are a gift from God\? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath\? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that His justice cannot sleep forever.\-Thomas Jefferson, excerpts are inscribed on the walls of the Jefferson Memorial in the nations capital. From Jefferson\'s Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII, 1781.', 
	'It is apprehended that Jews, Mahometans Muslims, pagans, etc, may be elected to high offices under the government of the United States. Those who are Mahometans, or any others who are not professors of the Christian religion, can never be elected to the office of President or other high office, unless first the people of America lay aside the Christian religion altogether, it may happen. Should this unfortunately take place, the people will choose such men as think as they do themselves.\-Governor Samuel Johnston, July 30 1788 at the North Carolina Ratifying Convention.', 
	'We\'ve staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all of our heart.\-James Madison.',
	'We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We\'ve staked the future of all our political institutions upon our capacity to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.\-James Madison, 1778 to the General Assembly of the State of Virginia.', 
	'I have sometimes thought there could not be a stronger testimony in favor of religion or against temporal enjoyments, even the most rational and manly, than for men who occupy the most honorable and gainful departments and who are rising in reputation and wealth, publicly to declare the unsatisfactoriness of temportal enjoyments by becoming fervent advocates in the cause of Christ, and I wish you may give in your evidence in this way.\-Letter by James Madison to William Bradford September 25 1773.', 
	'It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.\-James Madison.',
	'A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves lest, while we are building ideal monuments of renown and bliss here, we neglect to have our names enrolled in the Annals of Heaven.\-Letter by James Madison to William Bradford urging him to make sure of his own salvation, on November 9 1772.',
	'Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures. The doctrine they preach, the obligations they impose, the punishment they threaten, the rewards they promise, the stamp and image of divinity they bear, which produces a conviction of their truths, can alone secure to society, order and peace, and to our courts of justice and constitutions of government, purity, stability and usefulness. In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions. Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.\-James McHenry, signer of the Constitution.',  
	'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 overthrown, our present republican forms of government, and all blessings which flow from them, must fall with them.\-Jedediah Morse.',
	'It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only, whereas they should be taught theologically, or with reference to the Being who is the author of them. For all the principles of science are of divine origin. Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles. He can only discover them, and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author.\-Thomas Paine.',
	'The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that of generating in the pupils a species of atheism. Instead of looking through the works of creation to the Creator himself, they stop short, and employ the knowledge they acquire to create doubts of his existence. They labour with studied ingenuity to ascribe every thing they behold to innate properties of matter, and jump over all the rest by saying, that matter is eternal.\-Thomas Paine, The Existence of God, 1810.',
	'I lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them. We neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government, that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible, for this Divine Book, above all others, constitutes the soul of republicanism. By withholding the knowledge of the Scriptures from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.\-Benjamin Rush, Letter written 1790\'s in Defense of the Bible in all schools in America.',
	'Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.\-Benjamin Rush.',
	'If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into our world would have been unnecessary.\-Benjamin Rush.',
	'Let the children who are sent to those schools be taught to read and write and above all, let both sexes be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.\-Letters of Benjamin Rush, To the citizens of Philadelphia, A Plan for Free Schools, March 28 1787.',
	'The duties of men are summarily comprised in the Ten Commandments, consisting of two tables, one comprehending the duties which we owe immediately to God, the other, the duties we owe to our fellow men.\-Noah Webster.',
	'In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed. No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.\-Noah Webster 1828, in the preface to his American Dictionary of the English Language.',
	'Let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God. If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted. If our 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.\-Noah Webster, The History of the United States, New Haven Durrie and Peck, 1832.',
	'All the miseries 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, History page 339.',
	'The Bible was America\'s basic textbook in all fields. Noah Webster, Our Christian Heritage page 5.',
	'Education is useless without the Bible.\-Noah Webster, Our Christian Heritage page 5.',
	'The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion.\-George Washington Farewell Address.',
	'Reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.\-George Washington Farewell Address.',
	'It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and Bible.\-George Washington.',
	'What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.\-George Washington\'s speech to the Delaware Indian Chiefs May 12 1779.',  
	'To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.\-George Washington May 2 1778, at Valley Forge.',
	'During his inauguration, Washington took the oath as prescribed by the Constitution but added several religious components to that official ceremony. Before taking his oath of office, he summoned a Bible on which to take the oath, added the words, So help me God\! To the end of the oath, then leaned over and kissed the Bible.', 
	'O Most Glorious God, in Jesus Christ, my merciful and loving Father, I acknowledge and confess my guilt in the weak and imperfect performance of the duties of this day. I have called on Thee for pardon and forgiveness of my sins, but so coldly and carelessly that my prayers are become my sin, and they stand in need of pardon.\-George Washington.',
	'I have sinned against heaven and before Thee in thought, word, and deed. I have contemned Thy majesty and holy laws. I have likewise sinned by omitting what I ought to have done and committing what I ought not. I have rebelled against the light, despising Thy mercies and judgment, and broken my vows and promise. I have neglected the better things. My iniquities are multiplied and my sins are very great. I confess them, O Lord, with shame and sorrow, detestation and loathing and desire to be vile in my own eyes as I have rendered myself vile in Thine. I humbly beseech Thee to be merciful to me in the free pardon of my sins for the sake of Thy dear Son and only Savior Jesus Christ who came to call not the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Thou gavest Thy Son to die for me.\-George Washington, from a 24 page authentic handwritten manuscript book dated April 21\-23, 1752.', 
	'Although guided by our excellent Constitution in the discharge of official duties, and actuated, through the whole course of my public life, solely by a wish to promote the best interests of our country, yet, without the beneficial interposition of the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, we could not have reached the distinguished situation which we have attained with such unprecedented rapidity. To HIM, therefore, should we bow with gratitude and reverence, and endeavor to merit a continuance of HIS special favors,\-George Washington 1797 letter to John Adams.', 
	'Christianity is part of the common law.\-James Wilson, signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution Supreme Court Justice appointed by George Washington, spoke 168 times during the Constitutional Convention.',
	'Liberty Bell Inscription, Proclaim liberty throughout the land and to all the inhabitants thereof.\-Leviticus 25 10.', 
	'At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, James Madison proposed the plan to divide the central government into three branches. He discovered this model of government from the Perfect Governor, as he read Isaiah 33 22, For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king, He will save us.',
	'Article 22 of the constitution of Delaware 1776 Required all officers, besides taking an oath of allegiance, to make and subscribe to the following declaration, I, name, do profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ His only Son, and in the Holy Ghost, one God, blessed for evermore. And I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.',  
	'The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.\-John Adams.',
	'Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.\-John Adams.',  
	'We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.\-John Adams.',
	'If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.\-Samuel Adams.', 
	'He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of this country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man. The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people.\-Samuel Adams.',
	'If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.\-Samuel Adams.',
	'Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time, they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure and which insures to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments.\-Charles Carroll, signer of the Declaration of Independence.', 
	'Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master.\-Dwight D Eisenhower.',
	'They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.\-Benjamin Franklin.',
	'I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God Governs the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid\?\-Benjamin Franklin.',
	'Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote\!\-Benjamin Franklin.',
	'How many observe Christ\'s birthday\! How few his precepts\! O tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.\-Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard\'s Almanack, 1757.',
	'Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.\-Benjamin Franklin.',
	'Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.\-Benjamin Franklin.',
	'Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature. If the next centennial does not find us a great nation, it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.\-James Garfield, the twentieth president of the United States, 1877.',
	'The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.\-Patrick Henry, American colonial revolutionary.',
	'The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government, lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.\-Patrick Henry.',
	'It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.\-Patrick Henry.',
	'The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone, it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery\! Our chains are forged\! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston\! The war is inevitable, and let it come\! I repeat, Sir, let it come\!\-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 this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.\-Patrick Henry.',
	'Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.\-Patrick Henry.',
	'History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.\-Thomas Jefferson 1807.',
	'The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.\-Thomas Jefferson.',
	'I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, And if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.\-Thomas Jefferson.',
	'I never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man.\-Thomas Jefferson, In a letter to Don Valentine de Feronda, 1809.',
	'I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.\-Thomas Jefferson.',
	'In God we trust, right on the money.',
	'If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.\-Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 1816.',
	'America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.\-Abraham Lincoln.',
	'Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step over the ocean, and crush us at a blow\? Never\! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth, our own excepted, in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a Thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected\? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.\-Abraham Lincoln.',
	'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.\-Abraham Lincoln\'s 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation.',
	'I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.\-Abraham Lincoln.',  
	'To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.\-Abraham Lincoln.',
	'I have always thought that all men should be free, but if any should be slaves, it should first be those who desire it for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on them personally.\-Abraham Lincoln.',
	'We may congratulate ourselves that this cruel war, civil war, is nearing its end. It has cost a vast amount of treasure and blood. It has indeed been a trying hour for the Republic, but I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless.\-President Abraham Lincoln. The passage appears in a letter from Lincoln to Col William F Elkins, November 21 1864, Hertz II, 954, in Archer H Shaw, The Lincoln Encyclopedia page 40.',
	'The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. The banking powers are more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. They denounce as public enemies all who question their methods or throw light upon their crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.\-Abraham Lincoln.',
	'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.\-Abraham Lincoln.',
	'Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man\'s character, give him power.\-Abraham Lincoln.', 
	'I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end. I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.\-Abraham Lincoln.', 
	'And who that thinks with me will not fearlessly adopt the oath that I take\? Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But if, after all, we shall fail, be it so. We still shall have the proud consolation of saying to our consciences, and to the departed shade of our country\'s freedom, that the cause approved of our judgment, and adored of our hearts, in disaster, in chains, in torture, in death, we never faltered in defending.\-President Abraham Lincoln, Speech, Springfield, Illinois, Dec 20 1839.',
	'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.\-Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation for a National Day of Fasting.', 
	'I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by the gradual and silent encroachment of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpation.\-President James Madison Virginia Convention, 1788.',
	'The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.\-James Madison.',
	'Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.\-Thomas Paine.',
	'It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government.\-Thomas Paine.',
	'The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Where, some say, is the king of America\? I\'ll tell you, friend, He reigns above.\-Thomas Paine.',
	'Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.\-William Penn.', 
	'I used to say that Politics is the second oldest profession prostitution being the oldest, but I have come to realize that it bears a gross similarity to the first.\-Ronald Reagan.', 
	'Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does NOT mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country.\-Theodore Roosevelt.',
	'Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.\-Daniel Webster.',
	'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.\-Daniel Webster.',
	'Finally, let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the Christian religion. They journeyed by its light, and labored in its hope. They sought to incorporate its principles with the elements of their society, and to diffuse its influence through all their institutions, civil, political, or literary.\-Daniel Webster.',
	'If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, error will be. If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendancy, If the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will. If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.\-Daniel Webster.',
	'In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed. No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.\-Noah Webster.', 
	'The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and His apostles, which enjoins humility, piety, and benevolence, which acknowledges in every person a brother, or a sister, and a citizen with equal rights. This is genuine Christianity, and to this we owe our free Constitutions of Government.\-Noah Webster.', 
	'The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but the God of Israel is He that giveth strength and power unto His people. Trust in Him at all times, ye people, pour out your hearts before him. God is a refuge for us.\-Abigail Adams.',
	'A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men\? Can he be a patriot who, by an openly vicious conduct, is undermining the very bonds of Society\? The Scriptures tell us righteousness exalteth a Nation.\-Abigail Adams.',
	'We went to meeting at Wells and had the pleasure of hearing my friend upon Be not partakers in other men\'s sins. Keep yourselves pure.\-John Adams.',
	'The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People in a greater Measure, than they have it now, they may change their Rulers and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting liberty.\-John Adams.',
	'Now I will avow, that I then believe, and now believe, that those general Principles of Christianity, are as eternal and immutable, as the Existence and Attributes of God, and that those Principles of liberty, are as unalterable as human Nature and our terrestrial, mundane System.\-John Adams.',
	'As I understand the Christian religion, it was, and is, a revelation.\-John Adams.',
	'Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have. A right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean the character and conduct of their rulers.\-John Adams.',
	'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.\-John Quincy Adams.',
	'From the day of the Declaration, they, the American people, were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of The Gospel, which they nearly all, acknowledge as the rules of their conduct.\-John Quincy Adams.', 
	'I speak as a man of the world to men of the world, and I say to you, Search the Scriptures\! The Bible is the book of all others, to be read at all ages, and in all conditions of human life. Not to be read in small portions of one or two chapters every day, and never to be intermitted, unless by some overruling necessity.\-John Quincy Adams.', 
	'The Bible carries with it the history of the creation, the fall and redemption of man, and discloses to him, in the infant born at Bethlehem, the Legislator and Savior of the world.\-John Quincy Adams.',
	'If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom. Go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen\!\-Samuel Adams.',
	'Principally, and first of all, I resign my soul to the Almighty Being who gave it, and my body I commit to the dust, relying on the merits of Jesus Christ for the pardon of my sins.\-Samuel Adams wrote in his will.',
	'Should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a schoolbook\? Its morals are pure, its examples are captivating and noble. In no Book is there so good English, so pure and so elegant, and by teaching all the same they will speak alike, and the Bible will justly remain the standard of language as well as of faith.\-Fisher Ames, Author of the First Amendment.',
	'The preservation of Christianity as a national religion is abstracted from its own intrinsic truth, of the utmost consequence to the civil state, which a single instance will sufficiently demonstrate.\-Sir William Blackstone. Blackstone\'s Commentaries on the Law was the recognized authority on the law for well over a century after 1776.',
	'Wherefore, all affronts to Christianity, or endeavors to depreciate its efficacy, in those who have once professed it, are highly deserving of censure.\-Sir William Blackstone. Blackstone\'s Commentaries on the Law was the recognized authority on the law for well over a century after 1776.',
	'By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion, and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.\-Sameul Chase.'

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