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Wisdom of the Founding Fathers:
 


On God:
 
“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.”- Thomas Jefferson
 
"We recognize no sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus." - John Adams and John Hancock

 

"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." - George Washington


 
On Freedom:
 
 
"The constitutions of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property and freedom 
of the press." Thomas Jefferson 
 
 
"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? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever."- Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson Memorial
 
On the right of the citizen to bear arms:
 
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."-Thomas Jefferson
 
"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms..disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one." - Thomas Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria, Criminologist in 1764.
 
"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." -Thomas Jefferson
 
On values:
 
"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."-Benjamin Franklin
 
"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society."-Benjamin Franklin
 
"Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended."- Benjamin Franklin
 
"Having being poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is." -Benjamin Franklin
 
"He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue."-Benjamin Franklin
 
"He that can have patience can have what he will."- Benjamin Franklin
 
""The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools."
- United States Congress 1782
On the Declaration of Independence:
 
"The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity." - John Adams
 
 
 
On Government:
 
"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable." - George Washington
 
"I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."-Thomas Jefferson
 
 
"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?"-Thomas Jefferson
 
 
 
 
 
"The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity." - John Adams
 
On Power:
 
"Power is not alluring to pure minds."-Thomas Jefferson
 
 
 
On Private Property:
 

“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If ‘Thou shalt not covet’ and ‘Thou shalt not steal’ were not commandments from Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free.” — John Adams, A Defence of the Constitution of the United States against the Attacks of M. Turgot, 1787.

 

“What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent.” — Samuel Adams, Massachusetts Circular Letter, 1768.

 

“…’tis not without reason that [man] seeks out, and is willing to join in society with others who are already united, or have a mind to unite for the mutual preservation of their lives, liberties and estates which I call by the name of property.” — John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 1690

 

“The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.” — Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776

 
OUR Nation:
 
"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great Nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ." - Patrick Henry
 
On Education:
 
"In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed ... 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." - Noah Webster, Preface Noah Webster Dictionary, 1828