“The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all of our civil constitutions and laws… All of the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from them despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.”
Noah Webster (Founding Father/”Father of American Scholarship and Education”)
“The brief exposition of the Constitution of the United States will unfold to young persons the principles of republican government; and… our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the Bible.”
Noah Webster (Founding Father/Founder of Merriam-Webster Dictionary)
“Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited… what a utopia – what a paradise would this region be.”
John Adams (Founding Father/Second President of the United States)
“The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the Word of God and teaches us to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts.”
John Jay (Founding Father/First Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court)
“Were you to ask me for one book affording the most rational and pleasing entertainment to the enquiring mind, I would still say the Bible. And should you ask again about the best philosophy, or the most interesting history, I would still urge you to look into your Bible. I would make it, in short, the alpha and omega of knowledge.”
Elias Boudinot (Founding Father/President of Congress 1782-1783)
“Were you to ask me to recommend the most valuable book in the world, I should fix on the Bible as the most instructive – both to the wise and the ignorant.”
Elias Boudinot (Founding Father/President of Congress 1782-1783)
“For nearly half a century, I have anxiously and critically studied the Bible and I still scarcely ever take it up that I do not find something new.”
Elias Boudinot (Founding Father/President of Congress 1782-1783)
“Let the religious element in man’s nature be neglected and it becomes the creature of selfish passion. The cultivation of religious sediment incites general benevolence.”
Daniel Webster (Founding Father/ “Defender of the Constitution”)
“The doctrines proclaimed by Jesus and his apostles include lessons of peace, benevolence, meekness, brotherly love and charity.”
John Quincy Adams (Founding Father/Sixth President of the United States)
“Christian benevolence makes it our indispensable duty to lay ourselves out to serve our fellow creatures to the utmost of our power.”
John Adams (Founding Father/Second President of the United States)