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1 A pared down version of this is helpful to give to the encouragers if you prefer they choose what quotes they use. Postcard Quotes Following the Battle of Gettysburg, over two years into the war, the tide began to turn and President Lincoln confided: I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. George Washington said in his Farewell Address: Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great Pillars. It should always be remembered, that this law, natural or revealed... flows from the same divine source; it is the law of God... Human law must rest... ultimately, upon the authority of that law, which is divine. - James Wilson, signer of the Declaration and the Constitution and Supreme Court Justice The world is a dangerous place to live -- not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. - Albert Einstein My Friends: There is one great God... that hath made the world and all things therein, to whom you and I and all people owe their being... This great God hath written... in our hearts... to love and help... one another and not to doe harm. - William Penn Alexander Solzhenitsyn warned: I... call upon America to be more careful... Because they are trying to weaken you... do not let yourselves become weak. In 1962, the Supreme Court... banned the... saying of prayers. In 1963, the Court banned the reading of the Bible in our public schools... a series of assaults were made in one court after another... Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience... without God democracy will not and cannot long endure. - Ronald Reagan There is no country in the whole world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America, and there can be no greater proof of its utility... than that its influence is powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth. - Alexis de Tocqueville Make [your] choice of public officers solely in the light of [your] conscience. When an election is so held... it sustains the belief that the voice of the people is the voice of God. - Calvin Coolidge The question is not whether we legislate morality, but whose morality we legislate. - Chuck Colson Never forget, Americans, that yours is a spiritual country. Yes, I know you re a practical people. Like others, I ve marveled at your factories, your skyscrapers, and your arsenals. But underlying everything else is the fact that America began as a Godloving, Godfearing, Godworshiping people. - UN Secretary General Carlos Romulo Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the

2 Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure,... are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments. - Constitution signer Charles Carroll We are a religious people and our institutions presuppose a Supreme Being... When the state encourages religious instruction... it follows the best of our traditions. - Justice William O. Douglas it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord s side. - Abraham Lincoln, 1863 The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth - Dwight Eisenhower Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants. - William Penn At a Memorial Day event, May 31, 1923, Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President, gave a message entitled The Destiny of America, saying: Settlers came here from mixed motives, some for... adventure, some for trade and refuge, but... generally defined... They were intent upon establishing a Christian commonwealth in accordance to the principle of selfgovernment... It has been said that God sifted the nations that He might send choice grain into the wilderness. President Coolidge concluded: Who can fail to see in it the hand of destiny? Who can doubt that it has been guided by a Divine Providence? At a joint session of Congress on the 150th anniversary of Lincoln s birthday. Carl Sandburg wrote: I see America not in the setting sun of a black night of despair... I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time. - Charles Carroll, Nov. 4, 1800 Lafayette was guest at a ceremony at Bunker Hill, along with 200 Revolutionary Veterans. Daniel Webster spoke: God... has allowed you to behold... the reward of your patriotic toils; and He has allowed us... in the name of liberty to thank you! I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I should do and, with the help of God, I will do. - Edward Everett Hale, Editor of the Boston Daily and Chaplain of the U.S. Senate At the Battle of the Bulge General Eisenhower stated: I call upon every man... to rise now to new heights of courage... with unshakable faith in the cause for which we fight, we will, with God s help, go forward to our greatest victory. What is liberty without... virtue? It is... madness, without restraint. Men are qualified for liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites. - Edmund Burke It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation s humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence. - Franklin Pierce The very first act of Congress was to open with prayer. John Adams wrote: [Reverend Duche ]... read several prayers in the established form, and... the thirty fifth Psalm... I never saw a greater

3 effect upon an audience. It seemed as if heaven had ordained that Psalm to be read on that morning. We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic... [W]here we have been the... most consistent in obeying its precepts, we have attained the greatest measure of contentment and prosperity. - Franklin D. Roosevelt That the Divine Being should... be known, not as a distant Providence... but as God present in the flesh... amid the deep sorrows... protracted during centuries... carried peace into the bosom of humanity. - George Bancroft, Secretary of the Navy under President James Polk America s 41st President George Bush began his Inaugural Address: My first act as President is a prayer. I ask you to bow your heads. George Washington wrote to Lafayette: We must... place a confidence in that Providence who rules great events, trusting that out of confusion He will produce order... notwithstanding the dark clouds which... threaten at present. At a US Coast Guard commencement, President Reagan stated: It s our prayer to serve America in peace. It s our commitment to defend her in war. President Harry S. Truman, in establishing the annual National Day of Prayer, said: In times of national crisis when we are striving to strengthen the foundations of peace...we stand in special need of Divine support. We must seek revival of our strength in the spiritual foundations which are the bedrock of our republic. Democracy is the outgrowth of the religious conviction of the sacredness of every human life. On the religious side, its highest enlightenment is the Bible; on the political side, the Constitution. - Herbert Hoover A distinguished Civil War major, President James Garfield, also a college president and a preacher for the Disciples of Christ, said: If the next century does not find us a great nation... it will be because those who represent the... morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces. As the courts are generally the last in making the decision, it results to them, by refusing or not refusing to execute a law, to stamp it with its final character. This makes the Judiciary department paramount in fact to the Legislature, which was never intended, and can never be proper. - James Madison, the Father of the Constitution We can, with pure hearts, appeal to Heaven for the justice of our cause and... trust the final result to that kind Providence who has... so often... favored the... United States. - George Washington Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become... too proud to pray to the God that made us! - Abraham Lincoln

4 -In his declaration of the War of 1812, President James Madison stated: I... exhort all the... people of the United States... as they feel the wrongs... forced on them... [to] consult the best means under... Divine Providence of abridging its calamities. Neither... let it be overlooked that public utility pleads... for the general distribution of... Holy Scriptures... which... can alone secure to society order and peace. - James McHenry, Constitution signer and later Secretary of War Our institutions of freedom will not survive unless they are constantly replenished by the faith that gave them birth. - John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State and UN ambassador After approval of the Bill of Rights, thereby limiting the power and scope of the Federal Government. George Washington wrote: Now, therefore, I do recommend... the People of these United States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be. A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces, but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers." - President John F. Kennedy Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. - John Adams Let us play the man for... the cities of our GOD. While we are using the means in our power, let us humbly commit our righteous cause to the great LORD of the Universe. - John Hancock, famous for being the first to sign the Declaration of Independence [I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue. - John Adams, in a letter to cousin Zabdiel Adams, June 21, 1776 On the same day death of Jefferson and Adams, President John Quincy Adams stated: A coincidence... so wonderful gives confidence... that the patriotic efforts of these... men were Heaven directed, and furnishes a new... hope that the prosperity of these States is under the special protection of a kind Providence. Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention... In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions. But in America I found they were intimately united. - Alexis de Tocqueville President Kennedy stated: The same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe The belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God. President Kennedy concluded: Let us go forth... asking His blessing and His help... knowing that here on earth God s work must truly be our own. It... becomes our... Duty, not only to acknowledge, in general with the rest of Mankind, our dependence on the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, but as a People peculiarly favored, to testify our Gratitude to the Author of all our Mercies. - John Langdon, Governor of New Hampshire Without God there could be no American form of government or... way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the... the most basic expression of Americanism. - Dwight Eisenhower

5 John Tyler s first act in office was to proclaim a National Day of Fasting and Prayer, in which he stated: When a Christian people feel themselves to be overtaken by a great public calamity, it becomes them to humble themselves under the dispensation of Divine Providence, to recognize His righteous government over the children of men... and to supplicate His merciful protection for the future. John Wayne stated in the album America: Why I love her: If we want to keep these freedoms, we may have to fight again. God forbid, but if we do, let s always fight to win... Face the flag, son... and thank God it s still there. Joseph Warren, who sent out Paul Revere, stated: If you perform your part, you must have the strongest confidence that the same Almighty Being who protected your... forefathers... will still be mindful of you. The fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the Christian religion, and a people who reject its holy faith will find themselves the slaves of their own evil passions and of arbitrary power. - Lewis Cass, a U.S. Senator and Secretary of State It is our duty to unite in grateful acknowledgments to that Omnipotent Being... in unceasing prayer that He will endow us with virtue. - James Monroe If this nation is, in the providence of God, destined to lead the way in the moral and political emancipation of the world, it is time she understood her... calling... For mighty causes... are rushing with accumulating power to their consummation of good or evil. - Lyman Beecher, New England clergyman A just law is a manmade code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. - Martin Luther King After being sworn into office, President Millard Fillmore addressed Congress: I dare not shrink... I rely upon Him who holds in His hands the destinies of nations to endow me with... strength for the task. George Washington wrote of Benedict Arnold: Treason of the blackest dye... General Arnold... was about to... give the American cause a deadly wound if not fatal stab... Its [discovery] affords the most convincing proof that the Liberties of America are the object of divine Protection. "[O]ur citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the Bible, particularly the New Testament, or the Christian religion." - Noah Webster At a time...of... unprecedented success... it is fitting that we should... bow before the throne of divine grace and give devout praise to God, who holdeth the nations in the hollow of His hands. - William McKinley

6 Secretary of Defense William Perry stated on Armed Forces Day, May 1995: God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to... defend it. All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice... proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. - Noah Webster On his 90th birthday, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., replied to a reporter: Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God. America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine Providence in behalf of the human race. - Ralph Waldo Emerson There is a just God who presides over the destines of nations... who will raise up friends to fight our battle for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave...: Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death. - Patrick Henry After World War II, U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall prayed: Our liberty is under God and can be found nowhere else. May our faith be... not merely stamped upon our coins, but expressed in our lives. It seems... perfectly plain that... the right to equality, liberty and property... have for their foundation reverence for God. If we could imagine that swept away... our American government could not long survive. - Calvin Coolidge Our Nation s motto In God We Trust was not chosen lightly. It reflects a basic recognition that there is a divine authority in the universe to which this nations owes homage. - Ronald Reagan March 19, 1981 The Statue of Liberty was designed by sculptor Auguste Bartholdi, who wrote: The statue was born for this place which inspired its conception. May God be pleased to bless my efforts and my work, and to crown it with success, the duration and the moral influence which it ought to have. The only foundation for... education in a republic is... religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object... of all republican governments. - Dr. Benjamin Rush Known as The Father of the American Revolution, Samuel Adams, wrote: He is the truest friend to... liberty... who... will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power... who is not a... virtuous man... If we would... enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people. At a Memorial Address for Lincoln, Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax noted: Nor should I forget to mention here that the last act of Congress ever signed by [President Lincoln] was one requiring that the motto, in which he sincerely believed, In God We Trust, should hereafter be inscribed upon all our national coin. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, is not an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag. - Theodore Roosevelt

7 Thomas Paine wrote in common Sense stated: These are the times that try men s souls... we have this consolation... that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph... What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; tis dearness only that gives everything its value... Where, say some, is the king of America? I ll tell you, friend, He reigns above. The laws of nature that enable us to fly to the Moon also enable us to destroy our home planet... The guidelines of what we ought to do are furnished in the moral law of God. - Wernher von Braun The fundamental basis of this nation s laws was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings... of Isaiah and St. Paul. I don t think we emphasize that enough these days. - Harry S. Truman There are certain rights possessed by each individual... The American citizen... claims them because he is... fashioned by the same Almighty hand as the rest of his species. - William Henry Harrison No matter what Democracy tries to do in terms of individual liberty... when you come back to it, there is just one thing... man is worthwhile because he was born in the image of God. - Dwight Eisenhower William Prescott, who commanded the colonial militia at Bunker Hill wrote: Providence has placed you where you must stand the first shock... Our forefathers passed the vast Atlantic, spent their blood and treasure, that they might enjoy... liberties... and transmit them to their posterity... Now if we should give them up, can our children rise up and call us blessed? A man with God is always in the majority. - John Knox If we ever forget that we re One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under. - Ronald Reagan I know not how long a republican government can flourish among a... people who have not the Bible; the experiment has never been tried. - William Seward, Secretary of State When you have read the Bible, you will know that it is the Word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty. - Woodrow Wilson In his Second Inaugural Address, President Cleveland stated: Above all, I know there is a Supreme Being... whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people... He will not turn from us now if we humbly... seek His... aid. As the 18th President, Grant stated: On... the hundredth anniversary of our... nation, a grateful acknowledgment should be made to Almighty God for the protection... He has vouchsafed to our... country. Democracy is the outgrowth of the religious conviction of the sacredness of every human life. On the religious side, its highest embodiment is The Bible; on the political side, the Constitution. - Herbert Hoover

8 A God-fearing nation, like ours, owes it to its inborn... sense of moral duty to testify... devout gratitude to the AllGiver for... countless benefits. - Howard Taft General Eisenhower concluded on D-Day: Let us all beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking. Robert C. Byrd: Inasmuch as our greatest leaders have shown no doubt about God's proper place in the American birthright, can we, in our day, dare do less? George Washington Carver: The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible, in all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths. Henry Clay, powerful U.S. Senator and Speaker of the House: In 1839, when he was about to give a speech in which he would declare himself against slavery, one of his friends warned him that this would ruin his chances to become President. To this, Henry Clay gave his famous reply: I would rather be right than President. Alexis de Tocqueville, French statesman and historian: I sought for the greatness and genius of America. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. President Herbert Hoover: The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American life. Thomas Jefferson: He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. William Penn Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants. Abraham Lincoln's words inscribed on the Lincoln Memorial: That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in the Pacific during WWII, recounted: History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster. Mark Twain: It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

9 Peter Marshall, Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about our rights and privileges as American citizens. The time is come it is now when we ought to hear about the duties and responsibilities of our citizenship. America's future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating God's government. William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court: It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of Constitutional history.... The establishment clause had been expressly freighted with Jefferson s misleading metaphor for nearly forty years.... There is simply no historical foundation for the proposition that the framers intended to build a wall of separation between church and state.... The recent court decisions are in no way based on either the language or intent of the framers. Nikolaevich Tolstoi: For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth. Harry S. Truman, 33 rd President of the United States: At this moment I have in my heart a prayer. As I have assumed my heavy duties, I humbly pray to Almighty God in the words of King Solomon, Give therefore Thy servant an understanding heart to judge Thy people that I may discern between good and bad; for who is able to judge this Thy so great a people? I ask only to be a good and faithful servant of my Lord and my people. Theodore Roosevelt, 26 th President of the United States: The true Christian is the true citizen, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor; ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down on his task because it is cast in the day of small things; scornful of baseness, awake to his won duties as well as to his rights, following the higher law with reverence, and in this world doing all that is in his power so that when death comes he may feel that mankind is in some degree better because he lived. In his Inaugural Address 1901 T. Roosevelt said, I reverently invoke for my guidance the direction and favor of Almighty God. Franklin D. Roosevelt in his fourth Inaugural Address in 1945 stated, So we pray to Him now for the vision to see our way clearly... to the achievement of His will, to peace on earth. Harriet Tubman, former slave who repeatedly risked her life to free over 300 slaves said: Twant me, 'twas the Lord: I always told him, I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect you to lead me, and he always did. Woodrow Wilson, 28 th President of the United States: A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.... The Bible.... is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and needs of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation. Edmund Burke: What is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without restraint. Benjamin Franklin:

10 At the Constitutional Convention stated. It is impossible to build an empire without our Father's aid. I believe the sacred writings which say: Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. In his autobiography, the prayer that he prayed every day: O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favors to me. President George Washington: While just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government its surest support. And It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. Daniel Webster, American statesman and politician: God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. Noah Webster, statesman and author of Webster's Dictionary: Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties. The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all of our civil constitutions and laws.... All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. Republican government loses half of its value, where the moral and social duties are.... negligently practiced. To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens, than any other improvements in our system of education. Emma Willard, American educator and historian: The government of the United States is acknowledged by the wise and good of other nations to be the most free, impartial, and righteous government of the world; but all agree, that for such a government to be sustained for many years, the principles of truth and righteousness, taught in the Holy Scriptures, must be practiced. The rulers must govern in the fear of God, and the people obey the laws. John Witherspoon, signer of the Declaration of Independence: It is in the man of piety and inward principle, that we may expect to find the uncorrupted patriot, the useful citizen, and the invincible soldier.... God grant that in America true religion and civil liberty may be inseparable and that the unjust attempts to destroy the one, may in the issue tend to the support and establishment of both. John Quincy Adams, 6 th President of the United States: The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. John Adams, 3rd President of the United States: This Form of Government.... is productive of everything which is great and excellent among Men. But its Principles are as easily destroyed, as human nature is corrupted.... A Government is only to

11 be supported by pure Religion or Austere Morals. Private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other. Samuel Adams, Father of the American Revolution: We have this day restored the sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.