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Psalms 33:12
Encouraging words from some of our nation's founders.
George Washington
“It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.”
“Let us, with caution, indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religion principle.”
Thomas Jefferson
“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 the gift of God?”
“The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy but cannot disjoin them.” (On the Jefferson Memorial, Washington D.C.)
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 religion but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity and freedom of worship here.”
John Adams
“We have no government armed in power capable of contending in human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.”
