The Source of our Liberty and Independence

Someone sent us an email this week containing some powerful quotations from our Founding Dads. These quotes serve as a reminder that God was an integral part of the foundation of this country. Here are a few of them:

"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,
that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - That
to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving
their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed." -Declaration of Independence

"Upon my arrival in the United States, the religious aspect of the
country was the first thing that struck my attention...The Americans
combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their
minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the
other." -Alexis de Tocqueville, French Historian

"The religion which has introduced civil liberty, is the religion of
Christ and his apostles, which enjoins humility, piety and benevolence;
which acknowledges in every person a brother, or a sister, and a citizen
with equal rights. This is genuine Christianity, and to this we owe our
free constitutions of government." -Noah Webster

"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

"Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity,
religion and morality are indispensable supports. Whatever may be
conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar
structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national
morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." -George
Washington

"Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by
tyrants." -William Penn

"The right to freedom being the gift of the Almighty...The rights of the
colonists as Christians...may be best understood by reading and carefully
studying the institution of The Great Law Giver and Head of the Christian
Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New
Testament." -Samuel Adams