This list of quotes from various Leaders of the United States is presented

for the sole purpose of sharing the truth of our spiritual heritage.

It is meant to inform the Christian that our country has a calling from

the Lord and that we were intended, according to the founding fathers, to be

a moral society, Bibically based (our laws are founded on the Word of God).

Many today have tried to bring darkness to the land. I wish to spread a

little light on that darkness. Praise be to God.

As is witnessed by the following testimonies from men abroad, men

from the outside looking in, we will see that the founding fathers of the

Constitution did not take their God (who is also my God) nor their freedom

lightly. King George the Third was hard pressed for men and asked many

nations for help, to overcome the revolution. (He was fighting against God

himself). Catherine (of Russia) completely ignored his request (written by

his own hand). Frederick the Great (of Prussia) sharply refused him. Johan

Derk van der Capellen (of Holland) replied: "But above all, it must appear

superlatively detestable to me, who think the Americans worthy of every

man's esteem and look upon them as a brave people, defending in a becoming,

manly and religious manner those rights which, as men, they derive from

God, not from the legislature of Great Britain."

And from England we have the following testimonies:

England's former Prime Minister, speaking to the king:

"The spirit which now resists your taxation in America is the same

which formerly...established the great fundamental, essential maxim of your

liberties - that no subject of England shall be taxed but by his own

consent. This glorious spirit . . . animates three millions in America, who

prefer poverty with liberty, to gilded chains and sordid affluence, and who

will die in deference of their rights as men, as freemen.

"When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America,

when you consider their decency, firmness and wisdom, you cannot but

respect their cause, and wish to make it your own. For myself, I must

declare and avow that in all my reading and observation . . . for solidity

of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a

complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand

in preference to the general Congress at Philadelphia."

This petition was made to king George III by the Lord Mayor and Alderman of

London:

"As we would not suffer any man, or body of men, to establish

arbitrary power over us, we cannot acquiesce in any attempt to force it

upon any part of our fellow subjects. We are persuaded that, by the sacred,

unalterable rights of humane nature, as well as by every principle of the

constitution, the Americans ought to enjoy peace, liberty and safety, [and]

that whatever power invades these rights ought to be resisted. We hold such

resistance, in vindication of their constitutional rights, to be their

indispensable duty to God, from whom those rights are derived to

themselves." (Commanger and Morris).

Thus it is well established in world history that the Americans boldly

made known to the world that they were fighting for religious freedom as

well as for freedom from a government that restricted their rights

(religious as well as civil), and that they openly declared to the world

that they derived their Constitution from God.

Excerpts from George Washington's personal prayer book. (These prayers

were written in his own handwriting, when he was about the age of 20.)

"Let my heart, therefore, gracious God, be so affected with the glory

and Majesty of Thine honor that I might not do mine own works, but wait on

Thee, and discharge those weighty duties which Thou requirest of me . . . .

"O most Glorious God . . . I acknowledge and confess my faults, in the

weak and imperfect performance of the duties of this day. I have called on

Thee for pardon and forgiveness of sins, but so coldly and carelessly that

my prayers are become sin and stand in need of pardon. I have heard Thy

holy word, but with such a deadness of spirit that I have been an

unprofitable and forgetful hearer . . . . But, oh God, who art rich in

mercy and plenteous in redemption, mark not, I beseech Thee, what I have

done amiss; remember that I am but dust, and remit my transgressions,

negligences and ignorances, and cover them all with the absolute obedience

of Thy dear Son, that those sacrifices (of sin, praise and thanksgiving)

which I have offered may be accepted by Thee, in and for the sacrifice of

Jesus Christ offered upon the Cross for me."

"Direct my thoughts, words and work, wash away my sins in the

immaculate Blood of the Lamb, and purge my heart by Thy Holy Spirit . . .

daily frame me more and more into Thy likeness of Thy Son Jesus Christ."

"Thou gavest Thy Son to die for me; and hast given me assurance of

salvation, upon my repentance and sincerely endeavoring to conform my life

to His holy precepts and example."

But as concerning the foundation of this great country, George

Washington, who is called the "father of our country" sums up in his

speech: "It having pleased the Almighty Ruler of the Universe to defend the

cause of the United American States, and finally to raise up a powerful

friend among the princes of the earth, to establish our liberty and

independence upon a lasting foundation, it becomes us to set apart a day

for gratefully acknowledging the divine goodness, and celebrating the

important event, which we owe to His divine interposition."

Summer 1775, one day after George Washington took command of the Continental

Army.

"The General most earnestly requires and expects a due observance of

those articles of war established for the government of the army, which

forbids cursing, swearing and drunkeness. And in like manner, he requires

and expects of all officers and soldiers not engaged in actual duty, a

punctual attendance of Divine services, to implore the blessings of Heaven

upon the means used for our safety and defense."

July 20, 1775

"The General orders this day to be religiously observed by the forces

under his Command, exactly in manner by the Continental Congress. It is

therefore strictly enjoined on all officers and soldiers to attend Divine

service. And it is expected that all those who go to worship do take their

arms, ammunition and accoutrements, and are prepared for immediate action,

if called upon."

John Adams, July 1, upon the vote for the Declaration of Independence:

"Before God, I believe the hour has come. My judgement approves this

measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am,

and all that I hope in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it.

And I leave off as I began, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for

the Declaration. It is my living sentiment, Independence now, and

Independence for ever!"

Samuel Adams, after the final vote:

"We have this day restored the Sovereign, to Whom alone men ought to

be obedient. He reigns in heaven and ... from the rising to the setting

sun, may His Kingdom come."

Governor Jonathan Trumbell, of Connecticut, appealing for more volunteers:

"Be roused and alarmed to stand forth in our just and glorious cause.

Join . . . and march on; this shall be your warrant: play the man for

God, and for the cities of our God! May the Lord of Hosts, the God of the

armies of Israel, be your leader."

I close with a section of President Washington's Inaugural Address:

"We ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can

never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order

and right, which Heaven itself has ordained."

Constitutional Convention of 1787.

In addressing George Washington, concerning a seemingly deadlock.

Benjamin Franklin:

In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of

danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection. Our

prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. All of us who

were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a

superintending Providence in our favor . . . . And have we now forgotten

this powerful Friend? Or do we imagine 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

man." And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it

probable that an empire can rise without His aid?

We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings that except the Lord

build the house, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly believe this.

I also believe that, without His concurring aid, we shall succeed in this

political building no better than the builders of Babel; we shall be

divided by our little, partial local interests; our projects will be

confounded; and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a byword down to

future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this

unfortunate instance, despair of establishing government by human wisdom

and leave it to chance, war, or conquest.

I therefore beg leave to move that, henceforth, prayers imploring the

assistance of Heaven and its blessing on our deliberation be held in this

assembly every morning before we proceed to business.

There was a man, by the name of George Mason, a delegate to the

Federal Convention (and author of Virginia's Bill of Rights) who refused to

sign the Constitution because there was no Bill of Rights. He said to

George Washington "There is no Declaration of Rights." Thomas Jefferson

wrote from France and declared, "the omission of a bill of rights . . .

providing clearly . . . for freedom of religion, freedom of the press,

protection against standing armies, and restriction against monopolies."

Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts dissented, declaring, "The Liberties of

Americans were not secured."

"Posterity - you will never know how much it has cost my generation to

preserve your freedom. I hope you make good use of it."

John Quincy Adams

"We obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only

that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a price upon its

goods, and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom

should not be highly rated."

Thomas Payne, 1776

"Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and

embody the teachings of The Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it

should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent our civilization

and our institutions are emphatically Christian... This is a religious

people. This is historically true. From the discovery of this continent

to the present hour, there is the single voice making this affirmation...

we find everywhere a clear recognition of the same truth... These, and many

other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial

declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian

nation."

The Supreme Court of the United States of America.

Church of the Holy Trinity vs. The United States 1892.

"My God! how little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they

are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!"

Thomas Jefferson

"God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation

be secure when we have removed the conviction that these liberties are the

gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just,

that his justice cannot sleep forever."

Thomas Jefferson

"... to advance the enlargement of Christian religion, to the glory of

God Almighty..."

New England Charter

signed by King James I

"... being thus arrived in good harbor and brought safe to land, they

fell on their knees and blessed the God of heaven..."

Governor Bradford

referring to the Pilgrims

"We submit our persons, lives, and estates unto our Lord Jesus Christ,

the King of kings and the Lord of lords and to all those perfect and most

absolute laws of His given us in His Holy Word."

The Rhode Charter of 1683

"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

"It is the duty of nations, as well as of men, to own their dependence

upon the overruling power of God and to recognize the sublime truth

announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those

nations only are blessed by God."

Abraham Lincoln

"The moral principles and precepts contained in Scriptures ought to

form the basis of all 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 ... to this we owe our free constitutions of

government."

Noah Webster

"...that the use of the Bible is so universal and its importance so

great that your committee refer the above to the consideration of Congress,

and if Congress shall not think it expedient to order the import of types

and paper, the Committee recommend that Congress will order the Committee

of Congress to import 20,000 Bibles from Holland, Scotland, or elsewhere,

into the different parts of the States of the Union.

"Whereupon it was resolved accordingly to direct said Committee to

import 20,000 copies of the Bible."

Congress in session 1777

"Bible of the Revolution,"

order by Congress to print Bibles, 1781.

The first American printing.

"We greatly commending and graciously accepting of, their Desires for

the Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by Providence of Almighty

God, hereafter tend to the Glory of His Divine Majesty, in propagating of

Christian Religion to such People, as yet living in Darkness and miserable

Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God, and may in time bind

the Infidels and Savages, living in those Parts, to human Civility, and to

a settled and quiet Government."

First Charter of Virginia; (for settlement of

Jamestown) April 10, 1606

"The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental

power, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the

concentration of power, we are resisting the powers of death, because

concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human

liberties."

Woodrow Wilson

"The spirit of a man is more important than mere physical strength,

and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Republican institutions in the hands of a virtuous and God-fearing

nation are the very best in the world, but in the hands of a corrupt and

irreligious people they are the very worst and the most effective weapons

of destruction...."

Philip Schaff

"I am well aware of the toil, and blood, and treasure, that it will

cost to maintain this declaration, and support and defend these states; yet

through all the gloom I can see the rays of light and glory. I can see the

end is worth more than the means."

John Adams

"Lastly, our ancestors established their system of government on

morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot

safely be trusted on any other foundation than religious principle, nor any

government be secure which is not supported by moral habits."

Daniel Webster

"Go to the Scriptures...the joyful promises it contains will be a

balsam to all your troubles."

Andrew Jackson

During his Second Inaugural Address Abraham Lincoln stated:

"On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were

anxiously directed to an impending civil war... Neither party expected for

the war the magnitude nor the duration which it has already attained ...

Each looking for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and

astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to same God; and each

invokes His aid against the other." Here we have an expert witness, if the

testimony of a President is admissable in Court, that the nation, though

divided, was a Christian Nation. Continuing he goes on to say in this same

Address: "It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask God's

assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but

let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be

answered - that of neither has been answered fully.

The Almighty has His own purposes. . . . If we shall suppose that

American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God,

must needs come, but which, having continued to his appointed time, He now

wills to remove, and that he gives to both North and South this terrible

war, as the woe due to those by whom this offense came, shall we discern

therein any departure from divine attributes which the believers in a

living God always ascribe to him?

Fondly do we hope - fervently do we pray - that this mighty scourge of

war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all

the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited

toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall

be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years

ago, so it must still be said, "The judgements of the Lord are true and

righteous altogether."

His closing words, in the same Address, still, with the former words,

ring through this land - to those who have ears that hear.

"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the

right, as God gives us to see right, let us strive on to finish the work we

are in; to bind the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne

the battle and for his widow and orphan - to do all which may achieve and

cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations."

Robert L. Lee was also a praying American:

"Knowing that intercessory prayer is our mightiest weapon and the

supreme call for all Christians today, I pleadingly urge our people

everywhere to pray. Believing that prayer is the greatest contribution

that our people can make in this critical hour, I humbly urge that we take

this time to pray - to really pray.

Let there be prayer at sunup, at noonday, at sundown, at midnight -

all through the day. Let us pray for our children, our youth, our aged,

our pastors, our homes. Let us pray for our churches.

Let us pray for ourselves, that we may not lose the word `concern' out

of our Christian vocabulary. Let us pray for our nation. Let us pray for

those who have never known Jesus Christ and redeeming love, for moral

forces everywhere, for our national leaders.

Let prayer be our passion. Let prayer be our practice."

Again Abraham Lincoln:

"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming

conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all

about me, seemed insufficient for that day."

On April 30, 1863 there was a call for the nation to repent and seek God.

"We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven. We

have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have

grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. 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 the blessings

were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated

with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the

redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to God that made us! It

behooves us, then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess

our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness."

Addressing the Nation for a National Day of Fasting, Humiliation and

Prayer.

Abraham Lincoln. April 30, 1863.

"We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life - the

unborn - without diminishing the value of all human life....There is no

cause more important."

Ronald Reagan

Note from the compiler:

When I look back to the Founding Fathers, and review their life, the

history of my nation, I fully appreciate the words of John Adams, in the

year 1765: "Let the pulpit resound with the doctrines and sentiments of

religious liberty," for there is "a direct and formal design on foot to

enslave America."

My friends who have taken the time to read this, we do well to remember all

men that have given their lives and the blood that has been shed to preserve

your Christian heritage, as well as your rights. A great price has been paid

for your freedom. Both civilly by our forefathers, and spiritually by our

Redeemer. What will you do with it?

God has not bless us because we are a great people. We are great people

because we have been blessed by God.

God bless you all.

brother John