Great Quotes for a Great Weekend...

Happy Fourth of July people! :>) This is a great weekend. I hope you enjoy with family and/or friends. As you do, here are some powerful quotes as you celebrate:
Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics."
- George Washington's Farewell Address to Nation
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-Woodrow Wilson
"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not but religionists but by Christians, not on religion but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ."
- Patrick Henry
"We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that 'except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it.' I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel."
- Benjamin Franklin (From the debates at the Constitutional Convention, June of 1787)
"I sought for the greatness of the
- French writer Alexis de Tocqueville, after visiting
"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."
- 2 Chronicles 7:14
"Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people."
- Proverbs 14:34
"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..."
- John Quincy
"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible."
- George Washington
"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.
- Peter
"Every generation of Americans needs to know that freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought."
- Pope John Paul II
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
- John Adams
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
- Edmund Burke
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life,
- Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we will pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of Liberty."
- President John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Friday, January 20, 1961
"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility I welcome it."
- John F. Kennedy
"Freedom is the last, best hope of earth."
- Abraham Lincoln
"I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.'"
- Martin Luther King, Jr. (From his "I Have a Dream speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963)
"Patriotism is not so much protecting the land of our fathers as preserving the land of our children."
- Jose Ortega Y Gasset
"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."
- Thomas Paine
"I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death."
- Patrick Henry
"The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men,
- 1 Timothy 2:1-4
"In reading over the Constitutions of all fifty of our states, I discovered something which some of you may not know: there is in all fifty, without exception, an appeal or a prayer to the Almighty God of the universe. Through all fifty state Constitutions, without exception, there runs this same appeal and reference to God who is the Creator of our liberties and the preserver of our freedoms."
- D. James Kennedy
"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."
- General Douglas MacArthur
"I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, search the Scriptures! The Bible is the book of all others, to be read at all ages, and in all conditions of human life; not to be read once or twice or thrice through, and then laid aside, but to be read in small portions of one of two chapters every day, and never to be intermitted, unless by some overruling necessity."
- John Quincy
Here are a couple of random facts you might also like and hopefully find educational/edifying:
- "My County, Tis of Thee" was written by a Baptist minister, Samuel Francis Smith.
- "The Pledge of Allegience" was written in 1892 by a Baptist minister, Francis Bellamy.
- The words "In God We Trust" are traced to the efforts of Rev. W.R. Watkinson.
- Rev. John Witherspoon, a Presbyterian minister was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Almighty God, thank you for this great land. We are so grateful. Bless us, Lord God, that we might be a blessing to those on this land and those afar. Send forth revival and stir the hearts of politicians, pastors, civil leaders, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, that together we might lift high the name of Jesus. Bring forth your peace and power that the world might look to the church to light the way of justice and salvation. We pray in the matchless name of Jesus, our Lord and Savior, amen.






