Notable Quotes

From the Founding Fathers & Others

Washington

Preview: The honourable leaders of years past, while certainly not perfect, spoke with far more understanding, conviction and just plain virtue than today’s career politicians. There simply is no party that will produce these men again.

Just one scripture here:

Isaiah 3:12 As for My people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths. 13 [Yehovah] stands up to contend, and stands to judge the peoples. 14 [Yehovah] will enter into judgment with the elders of His people, and their leaders....

...“True religion affords to government its surest support.”—George Washington. [John Eidsmoe, Christianity and the Constitution (Baker Book House, Michigan, 1987)page 124]

“It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.”—George Washington. [Dr. Sterling Lacy, Valley of Decision (Dayspring Productions, Texarkana, TX) p.3]

“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.”—John Adams. [Quoted from The Works of John Adams.]

“We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions ... upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.”—James Madison. [Russ Walton, Biblical Principles of Importance to Godly Christians (Plymouth Rock Foundation, NH,1984) p.361]

“Religion is the only solid basis of good morals: therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.”—Gouverneur Morris. [John Eidsmoe, Christianity and the Constitution (Baker Book House, Michigan, 1987) Page 188]

“Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.” Samuel Adams. [Tim LaHaye, Faith of Our Founding Fathers (Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Publishers, Inc., Brentwood TN., 1987) p.196.]

“... The cultivation of the religious sentiment represses licentiousness ... inspires respect for law and order, and gives strength to the whole social fabric.”—Daniel Webster. [Robert Flood, The Rebirth of America (The Arthur S. DeMoss Foundation, Philadelphia, 1986) p.21.]

“Moral habits ... cannot safely be trusted on any other foundation than religious principle, nor any government be secure which is not supported by moral habits.... Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.”—Daniel Webster. [Verna M. Hall, The Christian History of the Constitution of the United States of America (FACE) p.247.]

“... But for [the Bible] we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man’s welfare ... are to be found portrayed in it.” Abraham Lincoln. [Clarence E. MacCartney, Lincoln and the Bible (Abington—Cokesbury Press, New York, 1949) p.35.]

“... The happiness of a people and the good order and preservation of civil government essentially depend upon piety, religion, and morality ...”—United States Supreme Court, 1892. [Church (off site) of the Holy Trinity v. U.S.; 143 U.S. 469 (1892).]

“... Offenses against religion and morality ... strike at the root of moral obligation, and weaken the security of the social ties ... this [First Amendment] declaration ... never meant to withdraw religion ... and with it the best sanctions of moral and social obligation from all consideration and notice of the law ... For whatever strikes at the root of Christianity tends manifestly to the dissolution of civil government ... because it tends to corrupt the morals of the people, and to destroy good order.”—Supreme Court of New York, 1811 [People v. Ruggles; 8 Johns 546 (1811).]

“It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs whether any free government can be permanent where the public worship of God, and the support of religion, constitute no part of the policy or duty of the state in any assignable shape.”—Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story. [Verna M. Hall and Rosalie J. Slater, The Bible and the Constitution of the United States of America (Foundation for American Christian Education, San Francisco, 1983) p.38.]

“The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.”—President Calvin Coolidge. [Steve C. Dawson, God’s Providence in America’s History (Steve C. Dawson, Rancho Cordova, CA) p.12:3.]

“... What constitutes the standard of good morals? Is it not Christianity? There certainly is none other. Say that it cannot be appealed to, and ... what would be good morals? The day of moral virtue in which we live would, in an instant, if that standard were abolished, lapse into the dark and murky night of ... immorality.” — Supreme Court of South Carolina, 1846.[City of Charleston v. S.A. Benjamin; 2 Strob. 520 (1846).]

“... Religion ... must be considered as the foundation on which the whole structure rests.... In this age there can be no substitute for Christianity. ...the great conservative element on which we must rely for the purity and permanence of free institutions.” Senate Judiciary Committee, 1853. [B.F. Morris, The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States (George W. Childs, Philadelphia, 1864) p.318—329.]

“The basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul. I don’t think we emphasize that enough these days. If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a ... government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State!” President Harry S Truman. [Steve C. Dawson, God’s Providence in America’s History (Steve C. Dawson, Rancho Cordova, CA)]