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Wednesday, July 3,2019
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BLESSED IS THE NATION WHOSE
GOD IS THE LORD, THE PEOPLE HE
CHOSE FOR HIS INHERITANCE. PSALM 33:12
PRESIDENTS
“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 favor.” - George Washington
“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.” - John Adams
“Before any man can be considered as a member of
civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the
Governor of the Universe.” - James Madison
“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.” - Thomas Jefferson
“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
FOUNDING FATHERS
“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.” - Jedidiah Morse
“An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that
is left us! ... Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper
use of those means which the God of nature hath
placed in our power. ... Besides, sir, we shall not fight
our battles alone. There is a just God who presides
over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up
friends to fight our battles for us. ... Is life so dear, or
peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of
chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not
what course others may take; but as for me, give me
liberty or give me death!” - Patrick Henry
“I have lived, sir, a longtime, and the longer I live,
the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: That God
governs in 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? We have been
assured, sir, in the sacred writings that ‘except the
Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it.’
I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without His
concurring aid we shall succeed in this political
building no better than the builders of Babel."
- Benjamin Franklin
SUPREME COURT JUSTICES
“The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of
God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world
and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to
regulate your life by its precepts.” - John Jay: First
Chief Justice
“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: First
Chief Justice
“Human law must rest its authority ultimately upon the
authority of that law which is Divine. ... Far from being
rivals or enemies, religion and law are twin sisters,
friends, and mutual assistants. Indeed, these two
sciences run into each other.” - James Wilson: Original
Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court
“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 at its foundations. ... I verily believe
Christianity necessary to the support of civil society.”
- Joseph Story: U.S. Supreme Court Justice
CONGRESS
“We are a Christian people...not because the law
demands it, not to gain exclusive benefits or to avoid
legal disabilities, but from choice and education; and
in a land thus universally Christian, what is to be
expected, what desired, but that we shall pay due
regard to Christianity?” - Senate Judiciary Committee
Report, January 19, 1853
“At the time of the adoption of the Constitution and
the amendments, the universal sentiment was that
Christianity should be encouraged. ... In this age
there can be no substitute for Christianity. ... That was
the religion of the founders of the republic and they
expected it to remain the religion of their descendants.”
- House Judiciary Committee Report, March 27, 1854
EDUCATION
“Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly
pressed to consider well the main end of his life and
studies is to know God and Jesus Christ which is
eternal life (John 17:3) and therefore to lay Christ in
the bottom as the only foundation of all sound
knowledge and learning. And seeing the Lord only
giveth wisdom, let every one seriously set himself by
prayer in secret to seek it of Him (Proverbs 2, 3). Every
one shall so exercise himself in reading the Scriptures
twice a day that he shall be ready to give such an
account of his proficiency therein.” - Harvard 1636
Student Guidelines
“All the scholars are required to live a religious and
blameless life according to the rules of God’s Word,
diligently reading the Holy Scriptures, that fountain of
Divine light and truth, and constantly attending all the
duties of religion.” - Yale 1787 Student Guidelines
SUPREME COURT RULINGS
“There is no dissonance in these [legal] declarations.
... These are not individual sayings, declarations of
private persons: they are organic [legal, governmental]
utterances; they speak the voice of the entire people.
... These, and many other matters which might be
noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the
mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian
nation.” - Church of the Holy Trinity v. U.S., 1892
(Unanimous decision declaring America a Christian
nation) Significantly, the U.S. Supreme Court cited
dozens of court rulings and legal documents as
precedents to arrive at this ruling; but in 1962, when
the Supreme Court struck down voluntary prayer in
schools, it did so without using any such precedent.
“Why may not the Bible, and especially the New
Testament, without note or comment, be read and
taught as a divine revelation in [schools] - its general
precepts expounded, its evidences explained and its
glorious principles of morality inculcated? ... Where
can the purest principles of morality be learned so
clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?”
- Vidal v. Girard’s Executors, 1844 (Unanimous
decision commending and encouraging the use
of the Bible in government-run schools)
FOREIGN OPINION
“The Americans combine the notions of Christianity
and of liberty so intimately in their minds that it is
impossible to make them conceive the one without the
other.” - Alexis de Tocqueville: French observer of
America in 1831, author of Democracy in America
“There is no country in which the people are so
religious as in the United States. ... The great number
of religious societies existing in the United States is
truly surprising: there are some of them for everything;
for instance, societies to distribute the Bible; to
distribute tracts; to encourage religious journals; to
convert, civilize, educate...to take care of their widows
and orphans; to preach, extend, purify, preserve,
reform the faith; to build chapels, endow
congregations, support seminaries...to establish
Sunday schools...to prevent drunkenness, etc.”
- Achille Murat: French observer of America in 1832
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