A few quotes from some of our Founding Fathers
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 12:36:17 PM [View Source]
Everyone living in the United States of America should be glad that our Founding Fathers were who they were; well educated men, good men, who desired personal liberties for themselves and others and who demanded honesty and integrity in themselves and others. They risked everything they owned, their lives and their fortunes, in order that today we all can live in the freest and greatest country that ever existed on the face of Earth. I hate to think what our Constitution would look like if it had been written by today's current crop of Washington DC politicians.
Read to what some of our Founders had to say about the founding of this country.
John Adams
"We recognize no sovereign but our God and no King but Jesus."
"We 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 moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."
Benjamin Franklin
"God governs in all 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 Sacred Writings (the Bible) that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain they that build it."
"In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room asking for Divine protection. Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. Do we imagine we no longer need His assistance?"
Alexander Hamilton
"For my own part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution a system without which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interest."
Patrick Henry ("Give me liberty or give me death.")
"It cannot be emphasized 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 reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity and freedom of worship here."
Thomas Jefferson (Writer of The Declaration of Independence.)
"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 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, and that His justice will not sleep forever."
John Jay (A Founder and our first Supreme Court Chief Justice) He would never be confirmed by today's Congress.
"Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their their rulers."
James Madison (The Father of our Constitution)
"We have staked whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon our capacity to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."
This should tell us all what our founders opinions were related to our country's founding and the documents upon which it was founded; The Declaration of Independence and The United States Constitution.
How can anyone claim that this country was not founded upon Jewish law and the teachings of Jesus? Do they not know or understand our history? Have our founders' voices been lost? If the words of those who gave us our country offend anyone then I am totally confused and discouraged by the way they must think.
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 12:36:17 PM [View Source]
Everyone living in the United States of America should be glad that our Founding Fathers were who they were; well educated men, good men, who desired personal liberties for themselves and others and who demanded honesty and integrity in themselves and others. They risked everything they owned, their lives and their fortunes, in order that today we all can live in the freest and greatest country that ever existed on the face of Earth. I hate to think what our Constitution would look like if it had been written by today's current crop of Washington DC politicians.
Read to what some of our Founders had to say about the founding of this country.
John Adams
"We recognize no sovereign but our God and no King but Jesus."
"We 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 moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."
Benjamin Franklin
"God governs in all 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 Sacred Writings (the Bible) that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain they that build it."
"In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room asking for Divine protection. Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. Do we imagine we no longer need His assistance?"
Alexander Hamilton
"For my own part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution a system without which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interest."
Patrick Henry ("Give me liberty or give me death.")
"It cannot be emphasized 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 reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity and freedom of worship here."
Thomas Jefferson (Writer of The Declaration of Independence.)
"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 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, and that His justice will not sleep forever."
John Jay (A Founder and our first Supreme Court Chief Justice) He would never be confirmed by today's Congress.
"Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their their rulers."
James Madison (The Father of our Constitution)
"We have staked whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon our capacity to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."
This should tell us all what our founders opinions were related to our country's founding and the documents upon which it was founded; The Declaration of Independence and The United States Constitution.
How can anyone claim that this country was not founded upon Jewish law and the teachings of Jesus? Do they not know or understand our history? Have our founders' voices been lost? If the words of those who gave us our country offend anyone then I am totally confused and discouraged by the way they must think.


