Other Quotes

Throughout the history of America, our best leaders, brightest intellects, and most diserning commentators have been Christian. They knew and often reiterated the necessity of faith in God, His Son Jesus Christ, and daily adherence to the Judeo-Christian ethic of the Bible in all walks of life, for the survival and the prospering of America. They truly had a "Kingdom of God" perspective. Here is more truth:

John Quincy Adams

"The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."

John Quincy Adams (in a letter to his son)

"It is essential, my son, in order that you may go through life with comfort to yourself, and usefulness to your fellow-creatures, that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper...

It is in the Bible, you must learn them, and from thebible how to practice them. Those duties are to God, to our fellow-creatures, and to yourself. 'Thou sahlt love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy sould, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength and thy neighbor as thy self.' On these two commandments, Jesus Christ expressly says, 'hang all the law and the prophets;' that is to say, the whole purpose of Divine Revelation is to inculcate them efficaciously upon the minds of men...

Let us, then, search the Scriptures....The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind; and afterward the history of one peculiar nation, certainly the most extraordinary nation that has ever appeared upon the earth."

Peter Marshall (Former Chaplain, United States Senate)

The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about our rights and privileges as Amerian citizens. The time is come-it is now-when we ought to hear about the duties and responsibiliites of our citizenship. America's future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating God's government."

Noah Webster

"When you become entitled to exercise the right of the voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of the God. The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty.

If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprinciped men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made not for the public good, so much as for the selfish of the local purposes."

Noah Webster

"The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all of our civil constitutions and laws...All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible."

Noah Webster

"The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and His Apostles....This is genuine Christianity and to this we owe our free constitutions of government."

Noah Webster

"The duties of men are summarily comprised in the Ten Commandments, consisting of two tables: one comprehending the duties which we owe immediately to God - the other, the duties we owe to our fellow men."

Noah Webster

"In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government, ought to be instructed...No truth is more evident to my mind that that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people."

Noah Webster

"Let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God [Exodus 18:21]...If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted...If our government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws."

Alexis de Tocqueville

"The safeguard of morality is religion, and morality is the best security of law as well as the surest pledge of freedom."

"Christianity is the companion  of liberty  in all its conflicts-the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims." 

"I sought for the key to the greatness and genius of America in her harbors...; in her fertile fields and boundless forests; in her rich mines and vast world commerce; in her public school system and institutions of learning. I sought for it in her democratic Congress and in her matchless Constitution. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."

"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."

Horace Greeley

"It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom."

William Holmes McGuffey (Author of "The McGuffey's Reader")

"The Christian religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived our prevalent notions of the character of God, the great moral governor of the universe. On its doctrines are founded the peculiartities of our free institutions."

Daniel Webster

"Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens."

Daniel Webster

"If there is anything in my thoughts or style to commend, the credit is due to my parents for instilling in me an early love of the Scriptures. If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglects instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity."

Finally, let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the Christian religion. They journeyed its light, and labored in its hope. They sought to incorporate its principles with the elements of their society, and to diffuse its influence through all their institutions, civil, political, or literary.

If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, error will be.

If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendancy;  if the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will.

If the Power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end."

Abraham Lincoln

"But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own."

 Abraham Lincoln

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

  Abraham Lincoln

"In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, I believe the Bible is the best gift God has given to man. All the good Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book, but for this Book we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man' welfare, here and thereafter, are to be found protrayed in it."

Abraham Lincoln

I do not doubt that our country will finally come through safe and undivided. But do not misunderstand me...I do not rely on the patriotism of our people...the bravery and devotion of the boys in blue...(or) the loyalty and skill of our generals...

But the God of our fathers, who raised up this country to be the refuge and asylum of the oppressed and downtrodden of all nations, will not let it perish now. I may not live to see it...I do not expect to see it, but God will bring us through safe."