God
blesses those
nations
who acknowledge Him, His laws and providence.
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The
First
Peril Quotes
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"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."
— Massachusetts
Provincial Congress, Resolution
October 6, 1774
“A
people
may be deceived, they may be betrayed by men in whom they put their
confidence.
But they deserve to be abandoned by providence if they trust their
interest
with men whom they know to be either weak or wicked.”
— Rev. Andrew
Elliot (1718-1778) Pastor at the North Church Boston (One if
by land, and two if by sea)
“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. There may be more danger of this, than
some, even of our well disposed citizens may imagine. If people should
grant their suffrages to men, only because they conceive them to have
been friends to the country, without regards to necessary
qualifications for the places they are to fill, the administration of
government will become a mere farce, and our public affairs will never
be put on the footing of solid security. We should inquire into the
tempers of men, in order to form a judgment in what manner the public
trust to be reposed in them will be executed. …Power is
intoxicating; and men legally vested with it, too often discover a
disposition to make an ill use of it and and unwillingness to part with
it. …. … I hope our countrymen will always keep a
watchful eye over the public conduct of those whom they exalt to power,
making the same time every allowance for the imperfections of human
nature; I pray to God we may never see men filling the scared seats of
government, who are either wanting in adequate abilities, or influenced
by any views motives or feelings separate from the public
welfare.”
— Samuel Adams (1722–1803) Father of the American
Revolution, Patriot and Statesman
“I sat next to John Adams in Congress, and
upon my
whispering to him and asking him if he thought we should succeed in our
struggle with Great Britain, he answered me,
‘Yes—if we
fear God and repent of our sins.’”
— Benjamin Rush (1745-1813) Founding Father& signer
of the Declaration of Independence
“It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to
perceive
in it [The Constitution] a finger of that almighty hand which has been
so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the critical
stages of the revolution.”
— James Madison (1751-1836) Father of the
Constitution, 4th President of the United States
“It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery
ensues.”
— Thomas Paine (1736-1809) Patriot, Author &
Pamphleteer
“God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough
knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the
earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface
and say: ‘This is my country.’”
— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Statesman, Scientist,
Inventor, Printer and Philosopher
“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 binds, 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 (1744-1818) Wife of John Adams, Mother
& Patriot
“Were my soul trembling on the wing of eternity,
were this
hand freezing to death, were my voice choking with the last struggle, I
would still, with the last gasp of that voice, implore you to remember
the truth: God has given America to be free.”
— Patrick Henry (1736-1799) Patriot, Lawyer and Orator
“Resistance
to tyrants is obedience to God.”
— Thomas Jefferson, Author of the
Declaration of Independence,
3rd
President of the U. S.
“We
are fighting for the dignity and happiness of human
nature.
Glorious it is for the Americans to be called by Providence to this
post of honour. Cursed and detested will everyone be that deserts or
betrays it.”
— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Statesman, Scientist,
Inventor, Printer and Philosopher
“A freeborn people are
not
required by the religion of Jesus Christ to submit to tyranny, but may make use of such power as God has given
them to recover and
support their laws
and liberties." (after the Boston
Tea Party)
—
Samuel Adams (1722–1803) Father of the American
Revolution, Patriot and Statesman
“To a man of liberal
education, the study of history is not
only
useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard to
the history contained in the Bible, the observation which Cicero makes
respecting that of his own country is much more emphatically
applicable, that ‘it is not so much praiseworthy to be
acquainted
with as it is shameful to be ignorant of it.’”
— John Quincy Adams, (1767-1848) 6th President of
the United States
"It would be
a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to
silence our
fears for the safety of our rights; that confidence is everywhere the
parent of
despotism; free government is founded in jealousy, and not in
confidence; it is
jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions to
bind down
those whom we are obliged to trust with powe; that our Constitution has
accordingly fixed the limits to which, and no further, our confidence
may go ... In
questions of power, then let no more be said of confidence in man, but
bind him
down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."
—
Thomas
Jefferson (1743-1826) Third President of the United States
“When
people are universally ignorant, and debauched in their
manners, they will sink under their own weight without the aid of
foreign Invaders.”
— Samuel Adams (1722–1803) Father of the American
Revolution, Patriot and Statesman
“The republican is the only form of government which is not
eternally at open or secret war with the rights of
mankind…”
— Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of
Independence, 3rd President of the U. S.
“People and nations are forged in the fires of
adversity.”
— John Adams (1797-1801) Second President of the United
States and Patriot
"We have this day
restored the Sovereign to whom alone men ought to be obedient. He
reigns in
Heaven, and with a propitious eye beholds his subjects assuming that
freedom of
thought and dignity of self-direction which He bestowed on them. From
the
rising to the setting sun, may His kingdom come!"
—
Samuel Adams (1722–1803) Father of the American
Revolution, Patriot and Statesman
"By these great
qualities, and their benign effects,
has Providence marked out the Head of this Nation, with a hand so
distinctly
visible, as to have been seen by all men, and mistaken by none."
—
John Adams (1797-1801) Second President of the United
States and Patriot
“I shall need the
favor of
that Being in whose hands we are, Who led our forefathers, as Israel of
old,
from their native land, and planted them in a country flowing with all
the
necessaries and comforts of life; Who has covered our infancy with His
providence, and our riper years with His wisdom and power; and to whose
goodness
I ask you to join with me in supplications, that He will so enlighten
the minds
of your servants, guide their councils, and prosper their measures,
that
whatsoever they do shall result in your good, and shall secure to you
the
peace, friendship, and approbation of all nations.”
— Thomas
Jefferson, Author of
the Declaration of Independence,
3rd President of the U. S.
“The falsification of
history has done more to impede human
development than any one thing known to mankind.”
— Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), French Political
Philosopher and Educationalist
“There
is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government
ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public
liberty.”
—
John Adams (1797-1801) Second President of the United
States and Patriot
“Only
a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations
become
more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”
— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Statesman, Scientist,
Inventor, Printer and Philosopher
“Unless
we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the
time
will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship
... To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal
privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science.
All such laws are un-American and despotic and have no place in a
republic ... The Constitution of this republic should make special
privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom.”
— Benjamin Rush (1745-1813) Founding Father& signer
of the Declaration of Independence
"I order you instantly
to surrender." "By what authority do you demand it?" said Capt.
Delaplace “In the name of the Great Jehovah and the
Continental Congress!”
— Ethan
Allen
(1738-1789) Patriot,
farmer, businessman, writer, leader
of the Green Mountain Boys
"Our cause is noble; it
is the cause of mankind!"
— George Washington (1732-1799) Father of the Country, 1st
President of the United States
Judge
John Jay’s Charge [words of wisdom to future
generations]
“A revolution which, in the whole course of its rise and
progress, is distinguished by so many marks of Divine favor and
interposition, that no doubt can remain of its being finally
accomplished. It was begun, and has been supported, in a manner so
singular, and I say miraculous, that when future ages shall read its
history, they will be tempted to consider great part of it fabulous.
…But, however incredible these things may in the future
appear,
we know them to be true, and we should always remember, that the many
remarkable and unexpected means and events, by which our wants have
been supplied, and our enemies repelled or restrained, are such strong
and striking proofs of the interposition of heaven, that our having
hitherto delivered from the threatened bondage of Britain, ought, like
the emancipation of the Jews from Egyptian servitude, and to be forever
ascribed to its true cause, and instead of swelling our breasts with
arrogant ideas of our prowess and importances, kindle in them a flame
of gratitude and piety, which may consume all remains of vice and
irreligion [want of religion, or contempt of it; impiety]. Blessed be
to God! ...
The Americans are the first people whom heaven has favored with an
opportunity of deliberating upon, and choosing the forms of government
under which they should live; —all other constitutions have
derived their existence from violence or accidental circumstances,
...Your life, your liberties, your property, will be at the disposal of
your Creator and yourselves. You will know no power but such as you
will create; no authority unless derived from your grant; no laws, but
such as acquired all their obligations from your consent. ...Adequate
security is also given to the rights of conscience and private
judgment. They are, by nature, subject to no control but that of the
Deity and in that free situation they are now left. Every man is
permitted to consider, to adore and to worship his creator in the
manner most agreeable to his conscience. No opinions are dictated; no
rules of faith prescribed; no preference given to one sect [of
Christianity over] to the prejudice of others.
The constitution, however, has wisely declared, that the
“liberty
of conscience thereby granted shall not be so construed as to excuse
acts of licentiousness, or justify practices inconsistent with the
peace or safety of the State.” In a word, the convention by
whom
that constitution was formed were of opinion that the gospel of Christ,
like the ark of God, would not fall, though unsupported by the arm of
flesh; and happy would it be for mankind if that opinion prevailed more
generally. ...from the people it must receive its spirit, and by them
be quickened, Let virtue, honor, the love of liberty and of science be,
and remain, the soul of this constitution, and it will become the
source of great and extensive happiness to this and future generations.
Vice, ignorance, and want of vigilance, will be the only enemies able
to destroy it. Against these provide, and, of these, be forever
jealous. Every member of the state, ought diligently to read and study
the constitution of his country, and teach the rising generation to be
free. By knowing their rights [God given], they [you the voter] will
sooner perceive when they are violated, and be the better prepared to
defend and assert them.”
—
John
Jay (1745-1829), Founding Father, Patriot, Statesman and First
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
"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 (1745-1813)
Founding Father& signer of the Declaration of Independence
“Our country is in
danger,
but not to be despaired of. Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but
we have
many friends, determining to be free, and heaven and earth will aid the
resolution.
On you depend the fortunes of America.
You are to decide the important question, on which rest the happiness
and
liberty of millions yet unborn. Act worthy of yourselves.”
— Joseph
Warren (1741-1775)
Doctor, General and Patriot (Sent Paul Revere & William Dawes
on their ride, fought the British as
they headed back to Boston after Lexington
and Concord
and died at the battle of Bunker
Hill.)
“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 (1797-1801) Second President of the United
States and Patriot
“No nation has ever
existed
or been governed without religion. Nor can be. The Christian religion
is the
best religion that has been given to man and I, as Chief Magistrate of
this
nation, am bound to give it the sanction of my example.”
—
Thomas
Jefferson (1743-1826) Third President of the United States
"No country upon earth
ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United
America.
Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be,
were we
to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has
pointed
us to so plainly; I cannot believe it will ever come to pass."
— George Washington (1732-1799) Father of the Country, 1st
President of the United States
"With equal pleasure I have
as often taken notice that Providence has been pleased to give this one
connected country to one united people …
This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and
it appears
as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper
and convenient
for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties,
should
never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien
sovereignties."
— John Jay (1745-1829),
Founding Father, Patriot, Statesman and First Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court
“There is not a truth
to be
gathered from history, more certain, or more momentous, than this: that
civil
liberty cannot long be separated from religious liberty without the
destruction
of both. Wherever religious liberty exists, it will, first or last,
bring in
and establish political liberty.”
— Joseph
Story (1779-1845)
Lawyer, Supreme Court Justice & influential commentator on the
U.S. Constitution
“If men are so wicked
with
religion, what would they be if without it.”
— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Statesman, Scientist, Inventor, Printer and Philosopher
“There
is
no such thing as human wisdom; all is the providence of God.”
—
John Adams (1797-1801) Second President of the United
States and Patriot
"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 (1732-1799) Father of the Country, 1st
President of the United States
“Man
will ultimately be governed by God or by
tyrants.”
— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Statesman, Scientist,
Inventor, Printer and Philosopher
"I enter on the trust to
which I have been called by the suffrage of my fellow-citizens with my
fervent
prayers to the Almighty that He will be graciously pleased to continue
to us
that protect which He has already so conspicuously displayed in our
favor."
— James Monroe (1758-1831)
Fifth President of the United States
“Duty
is ours; results
are
God’s.”
— John Quincy Adams,
(1767-1848) 6th President of
the United States
"All of us who were
engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of
superintending
providence in our favor. ... Have we now forgotten that powerful
Friend? Or do
we imagine that we no longer need His assistance? I have lived, Sir, a
long
time, 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?"
— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Statesman, Scientist,
Inventor, Printer and Philosopher
“Posterity: you will
never know how much it has cost my
generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of
it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took have the
pains to preserve it.”
— John Quincy Adams, (1767-1848) 6th President of
the United States
“A primary object ... should be the education of our youth in
the
science of government. In a republic what species of knowledge can be
equally important? And what duty more pressing ... than
communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the
liberties of the country?”
— George Washington (1732-1799) Father of the Country, 1st
President of the United States
"Providence marked out the head of this
Nation (George
Washington), with a hand so distinctly visible as to have been seen by
all men,
and mistaken by none."
—
John Adams (1797-1801) Second President of the United
States and Patriot
“The position of the
Americans is therefore quite exceptional, and it may be believed that
no
democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one. …All
men have aided it
by their exertions, both those who have intentionally labored in its
cause (establishment
of the Republic) and those who have served it unwittingly; those who
have fought for it and even those who have declared themselves its
opponents
have all been driven along in the same direction, have all labored to
one end;
some unknowingly and some despite themselves, all have been blind
instruments
in the hands of God. …“The whole book (Democracy
in America - 1835) that is here
offered to the public has been written under the influence of a kind of
religious awe produced in the author's mind by the view of that
irresistible
revolution which has advanced for centuries in spite of every obstacle
and
which is still advancing in the midst of the ruins it has
caused.”
— Alexis de Toqueville
(1805-1859) French Author
“The American war is
over;
but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the
contrary,
nothing but the first act of the drama is closed. It remains yet to
establish
and perfect our new forms of government, and to prepare the principles,
morals,
and manners of our citizens for these forms of government after they
are
established and brought to perfection.”
—
Benjamin
Rush (1745-1813) Founding Father& signer of the Declaration of
Independence
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The
Second
Peril Quotes
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“America
will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our
freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
— Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) Sixteenth President
of the United States
“They [the Founding Fathers] were intent upon establishing a
Christian commonwealth in accordance with the principle of
self-government. They were an inspired body of men. It has
been
said that God sifted the nations that He might send choice grain into
the wilderness.... Who can fail to see in it the hand of destiny? Who
can doubt that it has been guided by a Divine Providence.”
— Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) 30th President of the United
States
“I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe. The
prospect of a war with any powerful nation is too remote to be a matter
of calculation. Besides, there is no nation on earth powerful enough to
accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at
all,
will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the
concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I
do apprehend some danger. I fear that they my place too implicit a
confidence in their public servants, and fail to properly scrutinize
their conduct; that in this way they may be the dupes of designing men,
and become the instruments of their own undoing [and ours].
…. I
regard it [countries founding & Constitution] as the work of
the
purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the
smiles of a benignant Providence; for when we regard it as a system of
government growing out of the discordant options and conflicting
interests of thirteen independent States, it almost appears Divine
interposition in our behalf …. I believe, if the bond of
union
were broken, we should never again be a united people…. No
plan
could be proposed that would be adopted; the hand that destroys the
Constitution renders our Union asunder for ever.”
— Daniel Webster (1782-1852) Author, Lawyer and Patriot
“God is the only president of the day, and Webster is his
orator.”
— Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) Poet,
abolitionist, naturalist, transcendentalist & philosopher
"While
most nations
trace their origin to barbarians, the foundations of our nation were
laid by
civilized men, by Christians."
—
Lyman
Beecher (1775-1863) Presbyterian
minister & founder of the American Temperance Society
“We, the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and
the
courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who
pervert the Constitution.”
— Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) Sixteenth President
of the United States
"History
is God's providence in human affairs."
— Daniel
Webster (1782-1852) Author, Lawyer and Patriot
“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.” It
may do for other countrys and other governments to talk about the state
support religion, but here under our free institutions it is religion
that must support the state.”
— Robert Charles Winthrop (1809-1894) Former Speaker of the
U.S. House of Representatives
“To
the
kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom,
and
political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys. In proportion
as the
genuine effects of Christianity are diminished in any nation, either
through
unbelief, or the corruption of its doctrines, or the neglect of its
institutions; in the same proportion will the people of that nation
recede from
the blessings of genuine freedom, and approximate the miseries of
complete
despotism. All efforts
to destroy the foundations of our holy religion, ultimately tend to the
subversion also of our political freedom and happiness.. Whenever the
pillars
of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of
government, and all the blessings which flow from them, must fall with
them.”
—
Rev. Jedediah
Morse (1761-1826) Author, minister and teacher
“...
you [the voter] have especially to guard
yourselves.
You have the highest of human trust committed to your care. Providence
has showered on this favored land blessings without number and has
chosen you as the guardian of freedom to preserve it for the benefit of
the human race. May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations
make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed and enable you, with pure
hearts and pure hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to
to the end of time the great charge he has committed to your
keeping.”
— Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) 7th President of the United
States
"Return to the fountain whose
waters spring close by the blood
of the Revolution.
Think
nothing of me; take no thought for the political fate of any man
whomsoever,
but come back to the truths that are in the Declaration of
Independence. You
may do anything with me you choose, if you will but heed these sacred
principles."
—
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) Sixteenth President
of the United States
“Whatever
government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be
called what
they may.”
—
Daniel Webster (1782-1852) Author, Lawyer and Patriot
“Experience
should teach us to be most on our guard to
protect
liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent. Men
born
to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty from
evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to Liberty lurk in the
insidious encroachments by men of zeal, well meaning but without
understanding.”
— Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) Associate Justice of the U.S.
Supreme Court
“In no other way can this Republic become a world power in
the
noblest sense of the word than by putting into her life and the lives
of her citizens the spirit and principles of the great founder of
Christianity.”
— David J. Brewer (1837-1910) Associate Justice of the U.S.
Supreme Court
“Intelligence,
patriotism,
Christanity, and firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this
favored
land, are still still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our
present
difficulty.”
— Abraham Lincoln
(1809–1865) Sixteenth President of the United States
“My
experience of men has
neither disposed me to think worse of them, or indisposed me to serve
them; nor
in spite of failures, which I lament, of errors which I now see and
acknowledge;
or of the present aspect of affairs; do I despair of the future. The
truth is
this. The march of Providence
[God's work]
is so slow, and our desires so impatient; the work of progress is so
immense
and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long
and are
thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope.”
— Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) General
of the Confederate Army during the Civil War
“Let me say, gentleman, that if we and our posterity, shall
be
true to the Christian religion, if we and they shall live always in
fear of God, and shall respect his commandments, if we and they, shall
maintain just moral sentiments, and such conscientious convictions of
duty as shall control the heart and life, we may have the highest hopes
of the future fortunes of our country …But, if we and our
posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules
of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and
recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together,
no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall
bury all our glory in profound obscurity. Should that catastrophe
happen, let it have no history! Let the horrible narrative never be
written! Let its fate be like that of the lost books of Livy, which no
human eye shall ever read, or the missing Pleiad, of which no man can
ever know more, than that is lost, and lost forever!
We may trust, that Heaven will not forsake us, nor permit us to forsake
ourselves. We must strengthen ourselves, and gird up our loins with new
resolution; we must counsel each other; and, determined to sustain each
other in support of the Constitution, prepare to meet manfully, and
united, what ever of difficulty, or danger, whatever effort, or of
sacrifice, the Providence of God may call upon us to meet. We are of
this generation so derelict, have we so little of the blood of our
revolutionary fathers coursing through our veins, that we cannot
preserve, what they achieved? The would will cry out
“SHAME” upon us, if we show ourselves unworthy, to
be the
decedents of those great and illustrious men, who fought for their
liberty, and secured it to their posterity, by the Constitution of the
United States. …
We have a great and wise Constitution. We have grown, flourished, and
prospered under it, with a degree of rapidity, unequaled in the history
of the world. Founded on the basis of equal right, its provisions
secure perfect equality and freedom; those who live under it are equal,
and enjoy the same privileges. It is presumed, that all wise and good
men of the nation have the same end in view, though they may take
different means to obtain that great end, the preservation and
protection of the Constitution and government. ….
The Constitution has enemies, secret and professed; but they cannot
disguise the fact, that it secures us many benefits. Those enemies are
unlike in character, but they all act for the same purpose. Some of
them are enthusiasts, self-sufficient and headstrong. They fancy, that
they can strike out for themselves a better path, than that laid down
for them; …
Heat, in the intellectual constitution of these enthusiasts, is
distributed just exactly as it should be; they have hot heads and cold
hearts. They are rash, reckless, and fierce for change, and with no
affection for the exiting institutions of their country.
Other enemies are, more cool, and with more calculation. These have
deeper and more fixed and dangerous purpose; they formally spoke of a
forcible resistance to the provision of the Constitution; …
There are those in the country, who profess, in their own words, even
hate the Constitution ….
It is the anniversary of the birth of Washington. …All the
good,
whether learned or unlearned, high or low, rich or poor, feel, this day
that there is one treasure common to them all, and that is the flame
and character of Washington. They recount his deeds, ponder
over
his principles and teachings, and resolve, to be more and more guided
by them in the future. To the old and young, to all born in the land,
and to all, those love of liberty had brought them from foreign shores,
to make this the home of their adoption, the name of Washington is this
day an exhilarating theme. Americans by birth are proud of his
character, and exiles from foreign shore are eager, to participate in
admiration of him; and it is true that he is, this day, here,
everywhere, all the world over, more an object of love and regard, than
on ay day since his birth.
Gentlemen, on Washington’s principles, and under the guidance
of
his example, we will and our children uphold the Constitution. Under
his military leadership, our fathers conquered; and under the outspread
banner of his political and constitutional principles, will we also
conquer. To that standard, we shall adhere, and uphold it, through evil
report and through good report. We will meet danger, we will meet
death, if they come, in its protection; and we will struggle on, in
daylight and in darkness, aye, in the thickest darkness, with all the
storms which it may bring with it, till ‘danger’s
troubled
night in o’er, and the star of Peace return.”
— Daniel Webster (1782-1852) Author, Lawyer and Patriot
“You will notice that
while
the oppressors have carried out their plans and had things their own
way, there
were other forces silently at work which in time undermined their plans
- as if
a Divine hand were directing the counter-plan. Whoever peruses the
story of
liberty without recognizing this feature will fail of fully
comprehending the
meaning of history. There must be a meaning to history or else
existence is an incomprehensible
enigma.”
—
Charles
Carleton Coffin
(1823-1896) Journalist, Army Correspondent, Historian & Author
“That the Almighty
does make
use of human agencies, and directly intervenes in human affairs, is one
of the
plainest statements of the Bible. I have had so many evidences of his
directions, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other
power
than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.
I frequently see my way clear
to a decision when I am conscious that I have no sufficient facts upon
which to
found it. But I cannot recall one instance in which I have followed my
own
judgment founded upon such a decision, where the results were
unsatisfactory;
whereas, in almost every instance where I have yielded to the views of
others,
I have had occasion to regret it.
I am satisfied that when the
Almighty wants me
to do or not to do a particular thing, he finds a way of letting me
know it. I
am confident that it is his design to restore the Union.
He will do it in his own good time. We should obey and not
oppose his will.”
— Abraham Lincoln
(1809–1865) Sixteenth President of the United States
"God
grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard
and
defend it."
—
Daniel Webster (1782-1852) Author, Lawyer and Patriot
“The
Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a
power that conquers all that oppose it.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) French Military Dictator who
conquered much of Europe
“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be
the philosophy of government in the next.”
— Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) Sixteenth President
of the United States
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The
Third
Peril Quotes
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"The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no
God.’ They
are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none that does
good.”
— Psalms 14:1 RSV
“Yet they did not
listen to
me, or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than
their
fathers. "So you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not
listen to you. You shall call to them, but they will not answer you.
And you
shall say to them, 'This is the nation that did not obey the voice of
the LORD
their God, and did not accept discipline; truth has perished; it is cut
off
from their lips.”
— Jeremiah
7:26-28 RSV
“In times of imminent
danger
to the country, every true patriot should occupy the post in which he
can
render them the most effectually.”
—
George Washington (1732-1799) Father of the Country, 1st
President of the United States
“For in it the
righteousness
of God is revealed through faith for faith; as it is written, "He who
through faith is righteous shall live." For the wrath of God is
revealed
from heaven against all ungodliness and wickedness of men who by their
wickedness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain
to
them, because God has shown it to them. Ever since the creation of the
world
his invisible nature, namely, his eternal power and deity, has been
clearly
perceived in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse;
for
although they knew God they did not honor him as God or give thanks to
him, but
they became futile in their thinking and their senseless minds were
darkened. Claiming
to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal
God for
images resembling mortal man or birds or animals or reptiles. Therefore
God
gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the
dishonoring of
their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about
God for a
lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who
is
blessed for ever! Amen. For this reason God gave them up to
dishonorable
passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and
the men
likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with
passion
for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving
in their
own persons the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see
fit to
acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper
conduct. They
were filled with all manner of wickedness, evil, covetousness, malice.
Full of
envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity, they are gossips, slanderers,
haters
of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to
parents,
foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God's decree
that
those who do such things deserve to die, they not only do them but
approve
those who practice them.”
— Romans 1:17-32
RSV
“We may wonder at the
choice
of Israel
and Rome
as the archetypes of
the new nation, in view of the long history of suffering of the former
and the
decline of the latter. We may wonder that our ancestors over-looked the
darker
days of those earlier nations. They did not. They hoped to construct a
republic
on principles to sound that if we should decline in piety and public
virtue we
would meet the inexorable fate of nations, which are as but dust in the
hands
of God.”
— Robert
N Bellah (1927- )
American sociologist, professor and author
(The Broken Covenant)
As a former soldier, I am
delighted
that our veterans are sponsoring a movement to increase our awareness
of God in
our daily lives. In battle, they learned a great truth--that there are
no atheists
in the foxholes. They know that in time of test and trial, we
instinctively
turn to God for new courage and peace of mind. All the history of America
bears
witness to this truth. Out of faith in God, and through faith in
themselves as
His children, our forefathers designed and built this Republic.
— Dwight
D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)
Supreme Commander during WWII & 34th President of U.S.
“A
nation
which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is
today,
nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we
do not
know where we came from or what we have been about.”
— Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) 28th President ot the United
States
“We
cannot say the past is past without surrendering the
future.” “The greatest advances in human
civilization have
come when we recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of
history.” “The farther back you can look, the
farther
forward you are likely to see.”
— Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British Politician &
Leader
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread
it.”
— George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish playwright
“The truth is that
only
believing in God that we can criticize government. Once abolish the
God, and
the government becomes the God. That fact is written all across human
history.”
— G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
British Journalist, Poet, Author and Playwright
“But should someone
ask me
whether I would indicate the West such as it is today as a model to my
country,
frankly I would have to answer negatively. No, I could not recommend
your
society in its present state as an ideal for the transformation of
ours.
Through intense suffering our country has now achieved a spiritual
development
of such intensity that the Western system in its present state of
spiritual exhaustion
does not look attractive. Even those characteristics of your life which
I have
just mentioned are extremely saddening.”
— Alexander Solzhenitsyn
(1918-2008) Russian novelist & historian, spent years in a
Soviet Labor Camp
for criticizing Joseph Stalin (talk at Harvard, 1978)
“My
object in life is to dethrone God and destroy
capitalism” “we are ruthless and ask no quarter
from you.
When our turn comes we shall not disguise our terrorism.”
“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to
socialism.”
— Karl Marx (1818-1883) Father of Communism, atheist,
humanist, political economist & sociologist
“Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will
build a
socialist state.” “Destroy the family, you destroy
the
country.”
— Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924) Communist Dictator of the USSR
who lead the Bolshevik Revolution
“America is like a healthy body and its resistance is
threefold:
its patriotism, its morality and its spiritual life. If we can
undermine these three areas, America will collapse from
within.”
— Joseph Stalin (1878 – 1953) Dictator &
Russian political leader of the USSR
“Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the
state.”
— Adolph Hitler (1889-1945) Founder of the Nazi Party, German
leader responsible for WWII
“God was pitched out of forced schooling on his ear after
WWII.
This wasn’t because of any constitutional
proscription -
There was none that anyone had been able to find in over a century and
a half – but because the political state and corporate
economy
considered the Western spiritual tradition too dangerous a competitor.
And it is.”
— John Taylor Gatto (1935-) Retired teacher and author on
education
“We need to learn history to preserve the lessons that they
[founding Fathers] had already learned, so that we don’t make
the
same mistake.
— David Barton, Author and Public Speaker on
America’s Biblical Heritage, Wallbuldaily radio broadcast
10-2-06
“When people stop believing in God, they don’t
believe in nothing—they believe in anything.”
— G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) British Journalist, Poet,
Author and Playwright
“The truth is coming to pass whether you are ready or not,
neither you, nor anyone else can prevent it no matter what you believe.
What you believe does not necessarily change the truth; it’s
too
bad you believe what you believe."
— William H. Sharp, Survivor of the sinking of the USS
Indianapolis
"Education without
values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever
devil."
—
C.S.
Lewis (1898 -1963) Irish writer, scholar & Christian apologetic
“A
radical is one who speaks the truth.”
— Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr. Congressman, father of
famous aviator
“I do not think that anyone can study the history of this
nation
of ours without becoming convinced that divine providence has played a
part in it. I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us
to our present position and strength for some great purpose!”
— Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), 33rd President of the United
States
“The United States remains the last best hope for a mankind
plagued by tyranny and deprivation.”
— Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) 40th President of the United
States
“You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make
for
yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven
above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under
the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the LORD
your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon
the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep
my commandments. You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in
vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in
vain. Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God
commanded you.”
— Deuteronomy 5:7-12 RSV
“The fundamental basis of this nation’s law was
given to
Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes
from the teaching we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and
St. Paul.”
— Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), 33rd President of the United
States
“The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is
able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing
superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion
that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and
intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if
he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among
those who are.”
— Henry L. Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist, editor
& satirist
“All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to
do
nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is
nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of
irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.”
— Edmund Burke (1729-1797) British Statesman, Lawyer, Writer,
and Philosopher
“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a
menace to society.”
— Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909) 26th President of the United
States
“The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state
but from the hand of God.”
— John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), Thirty Fifth President of the
United States
“God has …. 99% of the time done judgements that
you will
find in the Old Testament, that is he has used nations with their
weapons of destruction that have had at that point in time to do his
judgements. ….He will use existing nations with their
arsenal of
weapons to do his judgements.”
— Larry Nassa, Former Dept of Defense Employee, Author
& Bibical Researcher, Radio Interview 8-30-2003
“God holds his people responsible for righteousness, not for
results.”
—
Beth
Moore ( 1957- ) Author and
founder of Living Proof Ministries
“It is God Who permits it all. But, at the same time, it
demonstrates how much punishment can be evoked for not
paying attention
to God’s dictates.”
— Sister Lucy (1907 -2005) One of three children to witness a
series of apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Fatima, Portugal
“I have wondered at times about what the Ten
Commandment’s
would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S.
Congress.”
— Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) 40th President of the United
States
“If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will loose
its
freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it
values more, it will lose that too.”
— William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) English novelist,
playwright & short-story writer
“History fails to record a single precedent in which nations
subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic
decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the
moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate
national disaster.”
— Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) Army General, involved in war
in
the Philippines, World War I, World War II, & Korean War
“No nation which has out grown its God has lived to write the
additional pages of history. This nation is in need of a spiritual
reawakening, and a reaffirmation in trust in God.”
— Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) 40th President of the United
States
“God…my self in the Bronx always says that God has
a funny
sense of humor. ..He has a way of treating things, he deals with each
individual soul delicately, tenderly, compassionately but he deals with
groups of people [country] according to certain laws and he always
observes those laws and that means the innocent are punished with the
evil.”
— Father Malachi Martin (1921-1999) Exorcist Priest,
Theologian & Author, Radio Interview
“I was stretched every
which
way but loose …"I was stretched by Mel Gibson. I was
stretched by the Guy
Upstairs and also I was stretched by the guy downstairs. What it did
was
completely strengthen my faith and I have realized something very
interesting.
I had never before subscribed to the idea that maybe Satan is a real
person,
but I can attest that he was in my room a lot and I know that he hit
everyone
on this production. ...
“I had all these
computers and synthesizers in my
studio and the hard drives would go down and the digital picture that
lives on
the computer with the music would just freeze on his [Satan's] face
[Movie The
Passion of the Christ]. Then the volume would go to ten and it would
happen all
the time. The first time it happened, it scared me …Once I
got over the initial
shock of that, I learned to work around it and learned to reboot the
computers
and so I would start talking to him.
There
was one day when I had been on the movie for
about four months when it really became bad that day and a lot of
things that
were causing doubt in me and I had had enough. The computers froze for
about
the tenth time that day and it was about nine o'clock at night and so I
got
really mad, and I told Satan to manifest himself and I said, 'Let's go
out into
the parking lot and let's go.' It was a sea change in me. I knew that
this was
war. I am not a physical person, but I was really angry on this
occasion. I had booted everything down and saved it and I was
walking down the stairs and I was verbalizing and saying to Satan,
'Manifest
yourself right now.' ... He didn't manifest himself, but I wished he
would have. It
changed for me after that.”
— John Debeny (1956- ) Award-winning Film Composer, Movie
Producer of “The
Passion of the Christ”
“The
Communists affirm the existence of God by their denial of
him, falling back upon the old argument that we need not deny what does
not exist.”
— Dr Marcus Bach (1906-1995), Author, from the book God and
the Soviets
“We say the name of God, but that is only habit.”
— Nikita Khrushchev (1894 - 1971), Russian statesman and
premier.
“In a
time
of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary
act.”
— George
Orwell [Eric Arthur Blair] (1903 – 1950) The British novelist
& essayist
"If
there were no God, there would be no atheists."
— G.K.
Chesterton (1874-1936) British Journalist, Poet, Author and Playwright
“No
arsenal, no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so
formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and
women.”
— Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) 40th President of the United
States
“He who controls the past commands the future. He who
commands
the future conquers the past.” “In a time of
universal
deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
— George Orwell [Eric Arthur Blair] (1903 – 1950)
The British novelist & essayist
"Free will
is the liberty to choose what is right."
—
Father Malachi Martin (1921-1999) Exorcist Priest,
Theologian & Author, Radio Interview
“The
U.S. must not merely possess the means to act alone if
necessary; it must also cultivate the will. Fate, or Divine Providence,
has placed America at this time in the position of sole superpower,
with the consequent duty to uphold global order and to punish, or
prevent, the great crimes of the world.”
— Paul Johnson (1928- ), Journalist, historian, speechwriter
& author
“There is a battle in
our
society, a battle in the western world; it’s been lost in the
rest of the
Western world, at least in Western
Europe. The
battle ground for this is the United States of America.
Will we be governered by,
in our own lives, Judaeo Christian values or secular values.”
—
Dennis Prager (1948- ) Author,
columnist & host
of a nationally syndicated radio show
“Socialism
is where decent, but ignorant people evolve to
automatically. Is the default position. In other words, people left to
themselves,
without input of wisdom, end up arriving at the conclusion that
socialism makes
a lot of sense. …
Socialism is only
defeated by a constant injection of religo moral energy. Only the Judeo–Christian
tradition combats socialism. If you block yourself off from any kind of
authentic input of wisdom, little by little socialism begins to make
more and
more sense.”
—
Rabbi
Daniel Lapin (1950-
) Orthodox
Rabbi, talk show host and author
“I, in
my own mind, have thought of America as a place in the divine scheme of
things that was set aside as a promised land. ... I believe that God in
shedding his grace on this country has always in the divine scheme of
things kept an eye on our land and guided it as a promised
land.”
— Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) 40th President of the United
States
“The Founding Fathers expressed in words for all to read the
ideal of Government based upon the dignity of the individual. That
ideal previously had existed only in the hearts and minds of men. They
produced the timeless documents upon which the Nation is rounded and
has grown great. They, recognizing God as the author of individual
fights, declared that the purpose of Government is to secure those
rights.
To you and to me this ideal of Government is a self-evident truth. But
in many lands the State claims to be the author of human rights. The
tragedy of that claim runs through all history and, indeed, dominates
our own times. If the State gives rights, it can—and
inevitably
will—take away those rights.
Without God, there could be no American form of Government, nor an
American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the
first—the most basic—expression of Americanism.
Thus the
Founding Fathers saw it, and thus, with God’s help, it will
continue to be....Veterans realize, perhaps more clearly than others,
the prior place that Almighty God holds in our national life. And they
can appreciate, through personal experience, that the really decisive
battleground of American freedom is in the hearts and minds of our own
people....
The path we travel is narrow and long, beset with many dangers. Each
day we must ask that Almighty God will set and keep His protecting hand
over us so that we may pass on to those who come after us the heritage
of a free people, secure in their God-given rights and in full control
of a Government dedicated to the preservation of those
rights.”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) Supreme Commander during
WWII & 34th President of U.S.
“Coincidence is
God’s way of
remaining anonymous.”
— Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
German born theoretical physicist
“The
last
experience of the sinner is the horrible enslavement of the freedom he
desired.”
—
C.S. Lewis
(1898 -1963) Irish writer, scholar & Christian
apologetic
“Well I believe we
[our
generation more pro-life] are because all of us were born since Roe vs.
Wade and
we realize that our birth was not guaranteed.”
—
Unknown
"The United States
is only one superpower. Today they lead the world. Nobody has doubts
about it.
Militarily. They also lead economically but they're getting
weak. But they
don't lead morally and politically anymore. The world has no
leadership. The United States
was always the last resort and hope for all other nations. There was
the hope,
whenever something was going wrong, one could count on the United States.
Today,
we lost that hope."
— Lech Walesa (1943- ) Polish
electrican, rights activist who
co-founded Solidarity, later became President of Poland
“God
chastises those he loves and all through history whether you
want to go back to the Old Testament or New Testament God has always
punished all nations when they go against God.
When ever mankind drifts away god, pushes them back in line. So, it
isn’t a matter of saying Ok where has scriptures warned me
that
if my country does such and such. Well it has warned us about morality,
basic charity as a society. When society differs and goes against god,
we a country were supposed to be a nation under god have given over to
a million abortions a year, we are accepting homosexuality as a normal
life style, our country is pursing immoral act with in other nations,
to where our country it self has become a godless nation. And god
himself does not sit back and say oh well let them do what they want to
do. God is god and god is going to insure and insist that mankind keep
his attention on him one way or another. God doesn’t need 6
billion faithful people that are forced into fidelity, he wants mankind
stay in faith fidelity with him by free will and choice. And, god has
always through history as the scriptures records and predicts that god
purifies mankind to make us worthy to accept us him and receive him as
a god.”
— Father Andrew Wingate, Founder of “Oblates of St.
Therese”, Radio Interview January 8, 2003
“I stand before you
today heart
broken, I know history and I love this country …God blessed
this country and it
took sacrifice because even though they were endowed by their creator
with
certain unalienable rights, that’s an inheritance. And if you
are not willing
to fight for you inheritance, even when you leave your children, if
they won’t
fight for it, they don’t keep it. Mean greedy evil people
will take it away.
So many
of the things we are
doing right now as a country are things that lead to loss of a country.
I leave
you with this thought and challenge any historian, no mater who you are
where
you are. You show me a country that ever met its demise while as a
nation it
was honoring the one true God. You won’t find it.
Let’s keep this country alive.”
— Louie
Gohmert (1953- )
Representative from Texas on Bill
H.R. 397, 2009
“I
will have no King but King Jesus. Someone has stolen my
country and I want Her Back.”
— Pastor Garrett Lear – Pastor of the Patriots
“The wicked shall depart to Sheol [Hell], all the nations
that forget God.” (Including the United States of America)
— Psalm 9:17 RSV
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Pre-Revolutionary
War Quotes
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“It
is difficult for man to look into the destiny of future ages; the
designs of Providence are vast and complicated, and our own powers are
too narrow to admit of much satisfaction to our curiosity. But when we
see many great and powerful causes constantly at work, we cannot doubt
of their producing proportionate effects. The colonies have not only
taken root and acquired strength, but seem hastening with an
accelerated progress to such a powerful state as may introduce a new
and important change in human affairs.”
— Jonathan Shipley (1714-1788) Bishop of St. Asaph, England,
1773
“The reason why men
enter
into society is the preservation of their property.
….[Therefore,] whenever the
legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the
people, or to
reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into
a state
of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any farther
obedience,
and are left to the common refuge which God hath provided for all men
against
force and violence. Whensoever, therefore, the legislative shall
transgress
this fundamental rule of society, and either by ambition, fear, folly,
or
corruption, endeavor to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any
other,
an absolute power over the lives, liberties, and estates of the people,
by this
breach of trust they [the government officals] forfeit the power the
people had
put into their hands… and
it devolves to
the people, who have a right to resume their original liberty, and
….provide
for their own safety and security.”
—
John
Locke (1632-1704)
British Philosopher & Author with works on the biblical basis
of government.
“Remember,
George, that God is our only sure trust;
to Him,
I commend you …My son neglect not the duty of secret
prayer.”
— Mary Ball Washington (1708-1789) Mother of George
Washington,
parting words to George Washington leaving for the French Indian war.
“Father Abraham, whom have you in heaven? Any Episcopalians?
No!
Any Presbyterians? No! Any Independents or Methodists? No, No No! Whom
have you there? We don’t know those names here. All who are
here
are Christians...Oh, is this the case? The God help us to forget your
party names and to become Christians in deed and truth.”
— George Whitefield (1714-1770) Preacher in The First Great
Spiritual Awakening traveled by horseback from New Hampshire to Georgia
“[I] believe that Almighty God himself will look down upon
your
righteous contest with gracious approbation. You will be a
‘band
of brothers,’ cemented by the dearest ties, and strengthened
with
inconceivable supplies of force and constancy, by that sympathetic
ardor, which animates good men, confederated in a single cause. Your
honor and sides, you are assigned by divine providence, in the
appointed order of things, the protectors of unborn ages, whose fate
depends on your virtue. Whether they shall arise the generous and
indisputable heirs of the noblest patrimonies, or the dastardly and
hereditary drudges of imperious task-master, you must
determine.”
— John Dickinson (1732–1808) Patriot,
Founding Father and lawyer
“Stand your ground! Don't fire unless fired upon! But if they
want to have a war, let it begin here!”
— Captain John Parker or the Lexington Militia, Lexington
Massachusetts, April 19, 1775
“Does the gospel cease
to be
a law of liberty, because some of its professors pervert it into an
engine of
tyranny, oppression, and injustice? The assertion, that all religion
countenances despotism, and Christianity more than any other, is
diametrically
opposite to fact. Survey the globe, and you will find that
liberty has
taken its seat only in Christendom, and that the highest degree of
freedom is
pleaded for and enjoyed by such as make profession of the
gospel.”
— Rev.
John Joachim Zubly
(1724-1781) Pastor, farmer and statesman
“So speak and so act
as
those who are to be judged under the law of liberty.”
—
James 2:12 RSV
"Blessings have in many
instances been given, after fervent prayers have ascended to God, when
none but
God could have contributed to their existence ; when they were utterly
unattainable by any human efforts, and after all hope of obtaining
them, except
by prayer, had vanished. I am bound, as an inhabitant of New England,
solemnly
to declare, that, were there no other instances to be found in any
other
country, the blessings communicated to this, would furnish ample
satisfaction
concerning this subject, to every sober, much more to every pious man.
Among
these, the destruction of the French armament under the Duke D'
Anville, in the
year 1746, ought to be remembered with gratitude and admiration by
every
inhabitant of this country. This fleet consisted of 40 ships of war;
was
destined for the destruction of New England; was of sufficient force to
render
that destruction, in the ordinary progress of things, certain; sailed
from Chebuc
to, in Nova Scotia,
for this purpose; and was
entirely destroyed, on the night following a general fast throughout New England, by a terrible
tempest. Impious men, who regard
not the work of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands, and who, for
that
reason, are finally destroyed, may refuse to give God the glory of this
most
merciful interposition. But our ancestors had, and it is to be hoped
their
descendants ever will have, both piety and good sense sufficient to
ascribe to
Jehovah the greatness, and the power, and the victory, and the majesty;
and to
bless the Lard God of Israel forever and ever. And have we the same
encouragement to present our supplications before the Lord that our
fathers had?
Most assuredly, His power and grace are still the same."
— Mr
Dwight, (Regarding being
saved from the French Invasion of America in 1746)
"It deserves very particular
attention, that the doctrine of the gospel is called a law of
liberty. Liberty
and law are perfectly consistent; liberty does not consist in living
without
all restraint; for were all men to live without restraint, as they
please,
there would be no liberty at all; the strongest would be master, the
weakest go
to the wall; right, justice, and property must give way to power, and,
instead
of its being a blessing, a more unhappy situation could not easily be
devised
unto mankind, than that every man should have it in his power to do
what is
right in his own eyes; well regulated liberty of individuals is the
natural
offspring of laws, which prudentially regulate the rights of whole
communities;
and as laws which take away the natural rights of men are unjust and
oppressive, so all liberty which is not regulated by law is a delusive
phantom,
and unworthy of the glorious name."
— Rev.
John Joachim Zubly
(1724-1781) Pastor, farmer and statesman
“Remove
not
the ancient landmark which your fathers have set.”
—
Proverbs
22:28 RSV
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“I am much afraid that the schools and universities will
prove to
be the great gates to hell unless they diligently labour to explain the
Holy Scriptures and engrave them upon the hearts of youth. I advise no
one to send their child where the Scriptures do not reign paramount.
Every institution that does not unceasingly occupy its students with
the Word of God must become corrupt.”
— Martin Luther (1483-1546) Leader of the Protestant
Reformation in Europe
“The prophecies are to be unintelligible to the ungodly but
intelligible to those who are properly
instructed.”
— Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) French mathematician, physicist
& religious philosopher
"I am abandoned by God and man. I will give you half of what I am worth
if you will give me six months of life. Then I shall go to hell and you
will go with me, Oh, Christ, Oh, Jesus Christ!" (last words)
—
Voltaire
[François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire] (1694-1778) French
writer, humanist, essayist & deist
“About the time of the end, a body of men will be raised up
who
will turn their attention to the prophecies, and insist upon their
literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamour and
opposition.”
— Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727) English physicist,
mathematician & philosopher
“The prophecies are the strongest proof of Jesus Christ. It
is
for them also that God has made most provision; for the event which has
fulfilled them is a miracle existing since the birth of the Church to
the end. So God has raised up prophets during sixteen hundred years,
and, during four hundred years afterwards, He has scattered all these
prophecies among all the Jews, who carried them into all parts of the
world. Such was the preparation for the birth of Jesus Christ, and, as
His Gospel was to be believed by all the world, it was not only
necessary that there should be prophecies to make it believed, but that
these prophecies should exist throughout the whole world, in order to
make it embraced by the whole world.”
— Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) French mathematician, physicist
& religious philosopher
“There is no question
the
inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because he comforted be with
marvelous
illumination from the Holy Scriptures ...For
the execution of the journey to the Indies I did not make use of
intelligence, mathematics or maps. It is simply the fulfillment of
Isaiah had
prophesied.”
— Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) Genoese navigator sailing for Spain
discovered the American Continents
“The
folly of interpreters has been to foretell
times and things by this prophecy, as if God designed to make them
prophets. By
this rashness they have not only exposed themselves, but brought the
prophecy
also into contempt. The design of God was much otherwise. He gave this
and the
prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify men's
curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they
were
fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and his own
providence, not
the interpreters',
be then
manifested thereby to the world. For the event of things predicted many
ages
before will then be a convincing argument that the world is governed by
Providence.”
—
Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727) English physicist,
mathematician & philosopher
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“The
wicked shall depart to
Sheol [Hell], all the nations that forget God.”
— Psalms 9:17 RSV
“Moreover
choose able men from all the people, such as fear God, men who are
trustworthy
and who hate a bribe; and place such men over the people as rulers of
thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.”
— Exodus 18:21 RSV
“Men
will surrender to the spirit of the age. They will say that if they had
lived
in our day, faith would be simple and easy. But in their day, they will
say,
things are complex; the Church must be brought up to date and made
meaningful
to the day's problems. When the Church and the world are one, then
those days
are at hand.”
— Saint Antony the Abbot (251-356) - Anthony of Egypt
"And
when your herds and
flocks multiply, and your silver and gold is multiplied, and all that
you have
is multiplied, Beware lest you say in your heart, 'My power and the
might of my
hand have gotten me this wealth,' You shall remember the LORD your God,
for it
is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may confirm his
covenant which
he swore to your fathers, as at this day. And if you forget the LORD
your God
and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I solemnly
warn you
this day that you shall surely perish. Like the nations that the LORD
makes to
perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the
voice of
the LORD your God."
— Deuteronomy 8:13, 17-20 RSV
"'And
if you obey the
voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments
which I
command you this day, the LORD your God will set you high above all the
nations
of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake
you, if
you obey the voice of the LORD your God. 'But if you will not obey the
voice of the LORD your God or be careful to do all his commandments and
his
statutes which I command you this day, then all these curses shall come
upon
you and overtake you. Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall
you be
in the field. 'The LORD will send upon you curses, confusion, and
frustration, in all that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed
and
perish quickly, on account of the evil of your doings, because you have
forsaken me.'"
—
Deuteronomy 28:1-2, 15-16,
20
RSV
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