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Quotes from our Founding Fathers
"Man will ultimately be governed by GOD or by tyrants"
Benjamin Franklin
"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to GOD"
Thomas Jefferson
"The BIBLE is the rock on which our Republic rests"
Andrew Jackson
"Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other"
John Adams
"We have staked the whole future of America civilization, not upon the power of the government, far from it. We have staked the future,,,upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to sustain ourselves, according to the Ten Commandments of God."
James Madison
"If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering"
Daniel Webster
"Do not let any one claim to be a true American if they ever attempt to remove religion from politics."
George Washington
"Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin 1775
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech"
Benjamin Franklin
"When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property"
Thomas Jefferson 1807
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
Thomas Jefferson
"Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them"
Thomas Jefferson
A free people ought to be armed. When firearms go, all goes, we need them by the hour. Firearms stand next to importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence."
George Washington, Boston Independence Chronicle, January 14, 1790
"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of people, trained in arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country."
James Madison, I Annuals of Congress 434 (June 8, 1789)
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined. The great object is that every man be armed. Every man who is able may have a gun."
Patrick Henry, During Virginia's ratification convention, 1788
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
Thomas Jefferson, proposed Virginia constitution, June 1776. Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334
"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
Thomas Jefferson, quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria in "On Crimes and Punishment", 1764
When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny,
Thomas Jefferson
"Government big enough to supply everthing you need is big enough to take everthing you have---The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases"
Thomas Jefferson
"Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers."
John Jay, First Supreme Court Justice
"Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people--a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloodly war, have nobly established their general liberty and independence."
John Jay in "Federalist 2"
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!
Patrick Henry
When Samuel Adams signed the Declaration of Independence, it is recorded that he said:
"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."
"THE TRUTH IS HATE, TO THOSE WHO HATE THE TRUTH"
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