The Fourth of July is just around the corner. In honor of our upcoming Independence Day, we are publishing daily quotes from our nation’s founders highlighting the high esteem they had for religion, religious liberty, and virtue.
The following is a proclamation issued by Congress on October 11, 1782. It again calls on Americans to give thanks to God and practice “true and undefiled religion, which is the great foundation of public prosperity and national happiness.”
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Filed under: Words From Our Founders on June 28, 2012 by Jerry
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The Fourth of July is just around the corner. In honor of our upcoming Independence Day, we are publishing daily quotes from our nation’s founders highlighting the high esteem they had for religion, religious liberty, and virtue.
The following is part of an address by President John Adams, one of the drafters and signers of the Declaration of Independence, issued October 11, 1798.
“[W]e have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled 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 a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Filed under: Words From Our Founders on June 27, 2012 by Jerry
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The Fourth of July is just around the corner. In honor of our upcoming Independence Day, we are publishing daily quotes from our nation’s founders highlighting the high esteem they had for religion, religious liberty, and virtue.
The following quote is taken from a political essay by Samuel Adams, signer of the Declaration of Independence, in 1748.
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Filed under: Words From Our Founders on June 26, 2012 by Jerry
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The Fourth of July is just around the corner. In honor of our upcoming Independence Day, we are publishing daily quotes from our nation’s founders highlighting the high esteem they had for religion, religious liberty, and virtue.
The following is a proclamation of “solemn humiliation, fasting, and prayer,” issued by President John Adams, one of the drafters and signers of the Declaration of Independence, on March 23, 1798.
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Filed under: Words From Our Founders on June 25, 2012 by Jerry
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The Fourth of July is just around the corner. In honor of our upcoming Independence Day, we are publishing daily quotes from our nation’s founders highlighting the high esteem they had for religion, religious liberty, and virtue.
The following is an excerpt from a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to Edward Dowse, dated April 19, 1803.
“I concur with the author in considering the moral precepts of Jesus as more pure, correct, and sublime than those of ancient philosophers.”
The following is an excerpt from The Writings of Benjamin Franklin published in 1787.
“[O]nly a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”
Filed under: Words From Our Founders on June 22, 2012 by Jerry
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