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George Washington:
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
Jim Elliot
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. (Lay hold onto Eternal Life.)
Thomas Jefferson:
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk (charge, sic) by the hour?
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
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.
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Benjamin Franklin:
Rebellion against tyrants (tyranny) is obedience to God.
The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either.
Patrick Henry:
I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? The great object is that every man be armed.
John Adams:
Democracy... while it lasts, is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live (the Bible).
Samuel Adams:
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
Ronald Reagan:
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.
We are never defeated unless we give up on God.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
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