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msg[1] = "\"It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.\"
- Patrick Henry";
msg[2] = "\"I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth--that God Governs the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?\"
- Benjamin Franklin";
msg[3] = "\"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, October 12, 1816";
msg[4] = "\"God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of 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.\"
- Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Don Valentine de Feronda, 1809";
msg[5] = "\"The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Where, some say, is the king of America? I'll tell you, friend, He reigns above.\"
- Thomas Paine";
msg[6] = "\"If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him....Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.\"
- William Penn";
msg[7] = "\"A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men? Can he be a patriot who, by an openly vicious conduct, is undermining the very bonds of Society?....The Scriptures tell us \"righteousness exalteth a Nation.\"\"
- Abigail Adams";
msg[8] = "\"By removing the Bible from schools we would be wasting so much time and money in punishing criminals and so little pains to prevent crime. Take the Bible out of our schools and there would be an explosion in crime.\"
- Benjamin Rush";
msg[9] = "\"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.\"
- Thomas Jefferson";
msg[10] = "\"The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People in a greater Measure, than they have it now, they may change their Rulers and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting liberty.\"
- John Adams, June 21, 1776";
msg[11] = "\"If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instruction and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.\"
- Daniel Webster";
msg[12] = "\"The hand that destroys the Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.\"
- Daniel Webster";
msg[13] = "\"The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all of our civil constitutions and laws....All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.\"
- Noah Webster";
msg[14] = "\"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.\"
- John Adams' Oct. 11, 1798 (Address to the military)";
msg[15] = "\"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;\"
- Noah Webster";
msg[16] = "\"If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made not for the public good so much as for the selfish or local purposes;\"
- Noah Webster";
msg[17] = "\"No point is of more importance than that the right of impeachment should be continued. Shall any man be above Justice?\"
- George Mason";
msg[18] = "\"There are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by the gradual and silent encroachment of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpation.\"
- James Madison";
msg[19] = "\"Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.\"
- Patrick Henry";
msg[20] = "\"In circumstances dark as these, it becomes us, as Men and Christians, to reflect that, whilst every prudent Measure should be taken to ward off the impending Judgements....All confidence must be withheld from the Means we use; and reposed only on that GOD who rules in the Armies of Heaven, and without whose Blessing the best human Counsels are but Foolishness--and all created Power Vanity;\"
- John Hancock, April 15, 1775";
msg[21] = "\"Have you ever found in history, one single example of a Nation thoroughly corrupted that was afterwards restored to virtue?... And without virtue, there can be no political liberty....Will you tell me how to prevent riches from becoming the effects of temperance and industry? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly?...I believe no effort in favor is lost...\"
- John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson";
msg[22] = "\"The object is great which We have in View, and We must expect a great expense of blood to obtain it. But We should always remember that a free Constitution of civil Government cannot be purchased at too dear a rate as there is nothing, on this side (of) the New Jerusalem, of equal importance to Mankind.\"
- John Adams, in a July 1, 1776 letter to Archibald Bullock, former member of the Continental Congress from Georgia";
msg[23] = "\"The natural progress of things is for government to gain ground and for liberty to yield.\"
- Thomas Jefferson";
msg[24] = "\"Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.\"
- Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776";
msg[25] = "\"If we run into such debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people in England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes; have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow sufferers.\"
- Thomas Jefferson";
msg[26] = "\"It's tempting to blame politicians for turning us into a nation of thieves, but you'd be wrong. Politicians are just the pimps trying to make a sale; you and I are their anxious customers.\"
- Walter Williams, Freeloaders, 1997";
msg[27] = "\"He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of this country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man....The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people.\"
- Samuel Adams";
msg[28] = "\"From the day of the Declaration...they (the American people) were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of The Gospel, which they nearly all, acknowledge as the rules of their conduct.\"
- John Quincy Adams, July 4, 1821";
msg[29] = "\"Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not only of all free government, but of social felicity under all governments and in all the combinations of human society.\"
- John Adams, August 28, 1811";
msg[30] = "\"If we don't have a right to act according to our religious belief by forming judgments according to those beliefs about human conduct and behavior, then, exactly what does the free exercise of religion mean?\"
- Alan Keyes";
msg[31] = "\"The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it.\"
- Horatio Seymour";
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