Revolution Founding Fathers Quotes
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Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, creator of the Universe. That he governs it by his Providence. That he ought to be worshiped. That the most acceptable service we render him is doing good to his other children. That the soul of Man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this.
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The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity
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Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of 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; that His justice cannot sleep forever.
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Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order.
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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
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We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people... it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
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Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.
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July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion.
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I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.
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The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
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The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
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May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
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The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.
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Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped.
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An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.
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The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.
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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
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What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
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I have sworn upon the altar of god.
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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
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It can not 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!
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To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms.
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This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.
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A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.
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I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world.
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There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters
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You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. — I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. — Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.
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A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.
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By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion... .
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