“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.” 1781.
Thomas Jefferson: 3rd President of the United States, author, architect, educator, scientist, and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
“Have you ever found in history, one single example of a Nation thoroughly corrupted that was afterwards restored to virtue? … And without virtue, there can be no political liberty… I believe no effort in favour of virtue is lost…”
June 28, 1813
John Adams: Second President of the United States.
“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.”
Oct 11, 1798
John Adams: 2nd President of the United States,
Vice President under George Washington,
Author of 3 volume “A Defense of the Constitution of the Government of the United States”.
Signer of the Declaration of Independence.
“My views… are the result of a life of inquiry and reflection, and very different from the anti-Christian system imputed to me by those who know nothing of my opinions. To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed, opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines in preference to all others…” April 21, 1803
“I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man…” Nov 4, 1820
Thomas Jefferson: 3rd President of the United States, author, architect, educator, scientist, and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”
Benjamin Franklin, April 17, 1787
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: Commander-in-Chief of the Virginia Militia, member of Continental Congress, member of Virginia General Assembly and House of Burgesses. Five-time governor of Virginia.
“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.”
April 1802
Alexander Hamilton, a “Founding Father” who authored 51 of 85 Federalist Papers (the defense of the U.S. Constitution) and was the First Secretary of the Treasury.
