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 Thanksgiving proclamation issued by Congress on October 26, 1781, under the direction of Thomas McKean, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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.”
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.”