Wednesday, February 27, 2008

What would our founding father's think of election 2008?

"The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees.  This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America. "
-Lyndon Johnson 

"The Separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being."
 -Lyndon Johnson  
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridles by morality and religion.  Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.  Our Constitution was made only for moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
  -John Adams
"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 in the Scared 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".
-Benjamin Franklin
"It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion but on the gospel of Jesus Christ.  FOr this very reason, people of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here. 
-Patrick Henry
"God who gave us life gave us liberty.  And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift from God?  That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and this His justice cannot sleep forever." 
-Thomas Jefferson
"We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all of our heart."
 -James Madison 
"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and Bible.
-George Washington 



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