Separation of Church and State
No matter what the revisionists say, We (these United States of America) have always been a God fearing nation. As such, we have reaped the benefits of divine providence and experienced blessings and prosperity unprecedented in history. Though you may never hear this in our state run schools, our founding fathers and greatest leaders clearly understood it. This page is dedicated to their wisdom and vision. It presents in their own words, the goals, hopes, and dreams which they held for this great Christian experiment. Many risked all that they have including their very life, that we might reap these blessings.
Give me Liberty or Give me Death!
In school, I remember learning that Patrick Henry said "give me liberty or give me death!", but I didn't learn of the source behind his boldness found in the paragraph before these famous words in the same speech: "There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave."
Better yet! Read his amazing words in their entirety here: http://www.history.org/Almanack/people/bios/pathenryspeech.html
A Nation is Born
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.
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm
Protecting the free exercise of religion
The first amendment (addition) to the constitution protects our religious freedoms. It was never intended to restrict them!
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Amend.html
This New Nation Acknowledges God
Whereas 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 favor-- and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness. Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being,
-- George Washington 1789 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/GW/gw004.html
First Supreme Court Judge recommends Christians!
"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 rulers."
John Jay, First Supreme Court Justice
http://snyders.ws/alan/quotes/jay.htm
National Repentance
It was understood by those who would hold our country together:
"We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness."
--Abraham Lincoln, 1863
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c106:H.+Res.+597
More to come
Well, this is all I have for now. It's a start anyway. I will add more as time permits. Notice most of the links on this page point to very reliable sites like the Library of Congress. Many quotes I have heard often, I could not find a reliable source. Relying on such quotes may prove disappointing if they can not be backed up.