“The Bible is the foundation upon which our republic rests." (Andrew Jackson)

“Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." (Thomas Paine)

“Nescire autem quid ante quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum.
(To be ignorant of what happened before you were born [history] is to always be a child.)
(Cicero, Orator, 120)

“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom."  (Benjamin Franklin)

“Let me hear no more of the goodness of man; let us tie the tyrants down with the chains of the Constitution."  (Thomas Jefferson)

“History will also afford the frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion.... and the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern."  (Benjamin Franklin)

“It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may ...stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn.” (George Washington)

“WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness…  
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance of the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”
(Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776)

“For the glory of God, and the advancement of the Christian faith..."  
(Mayflower Compact, November 20, 1620 -- this is the mission statement of the Pilgrims and purpose for their expansion into North America)

“History will also afford the frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion...  and the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern." (Benjamin Franklin)

“The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves...  The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage of this army.  Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance or the most abject submission.  We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.” (General George Washington in an address to the Continental Army)

“The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” (President Abraham Lincoln)

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”  
(Edmund Burke)

“We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power...  The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.”  (Patrick Henry)

“God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.”  (Daniel Webster)

“The religion that has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and His apostles… to this we owe our free Constitutions of Government.  …No truth is more evident to my mind than that Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. ”
(Noah Webster, Founding Father, Author of Webster’s Dictionary, educator, he was largely responsible for Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution)

“Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?  …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?”
(President John Quincy Adams, Sixth President of the United States)

“Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world."
(President Theodore Roosevelt)

“If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under."
(President Ronald Reagan)

“When you are in any contest you should work as if there were -- to the very last minute -- a chance to lose it."
(Presidend Dwight D. Eisenhower)

“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."
(Friedrich Engels, father of communism)

“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds...”
(Samuel Adams, Father of the American Revolution)

“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, Father of the American Revolution)

“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”
(George Orwell)

“I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor so far as it in no wise interferes with any other man’s rights."
(Abraham Lincoln)

Regarding the duty of Christians toward civil government:  “When right to keep right; when wrong to set right.” (James Rose, President, American Christian History Institute)

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