Founding America Quotes
The best sayings about Founding America that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
-
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.
→ -
But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?
→ -
When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God. The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty.
→ -
Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, creator of the Universe. That he governs it by his Providence. That he ought to be worshiped. That the most acceptable service we render him is doing good to his other children. That the soul of Man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this.
→ -
The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity
→ -
Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the 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; that His justice cannot sleep forever.
→ -
The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.
→ -
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
→ -
No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever.
→ -
It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three; and yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one.
→ -
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
→ -
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.
→ -
Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption
→ -
Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.
→ -
Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution of your country and the government established under it. Leave evils which exist in some parts of the country, but which are beyond your control, to the all-wise direction of an over-ruling Providence. Perform those duties which are present, plain and positive. Respect the laws of your country.
→ -
July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion.
→ -
Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange believe that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditionary or invented absurdities, or of downright lies.
→ -
The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
→ -
The date will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.
→ -
Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting "Jesus Christ," so that it would read "A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;" the insertion was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination.
→ -
Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?
→ -
The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a great Measure, than they have it now. They may change their Rulers, and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty.
→ -
It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors.
→ -
No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
→ -
Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped.
→ -
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.
→ -
It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the Civil authority with such distinctness as to avoid collisions and doubts on unessential points. The tendency to unsurpastion on one side or the other, or to a corrupting coalition or alliance between them, will be best guarded agst. by an entire abstinence of the Gov't from interfence in any way whatsoever, beyond the necessity of preserving public order, and protecting each sect agst. trespasses on its legal rights by others.
→ -
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
→ -
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
→ -
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
→
Top Authors
-
-
-
-
-
-
Stefan Collini Academic -
Stephen Colletti Actor -
Stephen Beck Artist
-
Sophy Burnham Author -
Stephanie Tourles Author -
Stephen Elliott Author -
Stephen Girard Banker -
Smoky Joe Wood Baseball player -
Shirley Williams British Politician -
Sigmund Romberg Composer -
Stephen Downes Computer researcher -
Soichiro Honda Engineer -
Sidharth Malhotra Film actor -
Simon Price Journalist -
Stephan Bonnar Mixed Martial Artist -
Simon Wiesenthal Nazi hunter -
Simon Ramo Physicist -
Siddharth Katragadda Poet
-
Shuntaro Tanikawa Poet -
Stephen Burt Poet -
Solomon Asch Psychologist -
Stanley Milgram Psychologist -
Shmuley Boteach Rabbi -
Sonu Nigam Singer -
Simone de Beauvoir Writer
Share our collection of quotes on social networks – this will allow as many people as possible to find inspiring quotes about Founding America!