Some fun facts and quotes from our nation’s history that help to clear up what our forefathers thought about today’s secular-left, strict interpretation of Jefferson’s concept of a separation of Church and State:
- The Supreme Court begins each day with the proclamation: “God save the United States and this honorable court.” This has been the case for more than 200 years.
- During the Cold War, Congress inserted “One nation, under God” in to the Pledge of Allegiance so as to distinguish our Judeo-Christian culture from that of the Secular-Atheists in Communist Russia. This sentiment was echoed by the Supreme Court in
Zorach vs. Clauson - “…The right to freedom (is) the gift of God Almighty; it is not in the power of Man to alienate this gift.” –John Adams (1772)
- “The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sun beam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of Divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.” –Alexander Hamilton (1775)
- Benjamin Franklin proposed in 1787 that the Constitutional Convention begin each day with a prayer, and publicly said: “The longer I live, the more convincing the proofs I see of this truth --- that God governs the affairs of Men.”
- “No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand (of God) which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States.” –George Washington (1st Inaugural Address, 1789)
- “Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness.” –Samuel Adams
- The inscription “May Heaven to this union continue its beneficence” was placed at the top
of the side of the Washington Memorial that faces east. This was done so that it would be the first thing God “sees” each morning with the sun’s rising on America. - “The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican government.” -Benjamin Rush (signor to the Declaration of Independence)
- “God who gave us life, gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?” –Thomas Jefferson (1785)
- “If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way, this war would have been ended before this. But we find it still continues; and we must believe that God permits it for some wise purpose of His own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though in our limited understanding, we are not able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that He who made the world still governs it.” -Abraham Lincoln(Commenting on the Civil War in 1862)
- “O Lord, give us faith. Give us faith in Thee; faith in our sons; faith in each other; faith in our united crusade…Thy will be done, Almighty God. Amen.” -FDR (Praying on National Radio in 1944)
- There are copies of the Ten Commandments in the Supreme Court and Capitol buildings, and above the doors to the House of Representatives’ Chamber there are the words “In God We Trust” inscribed.
- “Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s (Christ’s) mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity?” -John Quincy Adams (July 4th, 1837)
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