Christian Nation Quotes

• The Supreme Court has said that America is a Christian nation. But to make such a statement today causes reporters, newsmen, and many politicians to go ballistic.

  D. James Kennedy

  Christian, Religious, America

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• The United States is a Christian nation founded upon Christian principles and beliefs.

  George W. Bush

  Christian, Principles, United States

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• One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, United States, Population

  "Newsweek is Wrong: Christian America is as Strong as Ever" by Jeff Schweitzer, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2009.

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• America was born a Christian nation.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Christian, America, Born

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.59, NYU Press

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• I could show how largely our laws and customs are based upon the laws of Moses and the teachings of Christ; how constantly the Bible is appealed to as the guide of life and the authority in questions of morals... Add a volume of unofficial declaration to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation.

  David Josiah Brewer

  Christian, Religious, Teaching

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• It is this law of love and its recognition as a rule of conduct in all our relations with friends, enemies and offenders which must inevitably bring about the complete transformation of the existing order of things,
  not only among Christian nations, but among all the peoples of the globe

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Christian, Order

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1971). “The law of love and the law of violence”

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• America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness, which are derived from Holy Scripture. Ladies and gentlemen, I have a very simple thing to ask of you. I ask of every man and woman in this audience that, from this night on, they will realize that part of the destiny of America lies in their daily perusal of this great Book of revelations. (The Bible) That if they would see America free and pure they will make their own spirits free and pure by the baptism of Holy Scripture.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Christian, Lying, Book

  Woodrow Wilson, Ray Stannard Baker, Howard Seavoy Leach (1925). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state; educational literary and political papers (1875-1913)”

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• The Constitution established the United States of America as a Christian nation.

  John McCain

  Christian, America, Religion

  "John McCain over the edge" by David Kuo, www.beliefnet.com.

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• This is a Christian nation.

  Harry S. Truman

  Bible, God, Christian

  Harry S. Truman, Pope Pius XII (1953*). “Correspondence between President Truman and Pope Pius XII.”

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• The stranger in ancient Israel did not serve as a judge, although he received all the benefits of living in the land. The political question is this: By what biblical standard is the pagan to be granted the right to bring political sanctions against God's people? We recognize that unbelievers are not to vote in Church elections. Why should they be allowed to vote in civil elections in a covenanted Christian nation? Which judicial standards will they impose? By what other standard than the Bible?

  Gary North

  Christian, Biblical, Land

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• Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.

  William H. Seward

  Christian, Slavery, Nations

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• The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Jesus, America

  Pat Robertson (1994). “The Collected Works of Pat Robertson: The New Millennium/the New World Order/the Secret Kingdom/3 Books in 1”, Bristol Park Books

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• Thanksgiving is for real Americans not Indians. We founded this Christian nation. Why if it wasn’t for the God-fearing pilgrims, the natives would still be running around in loin cloths shooting at things with their arrows.

  Sarah Palin

  Christian, Running, Real

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• I would like to quote a very prejudicial doctrine that was handed down by the Supreme Court in 1823. It said that the Indian Nations do not have title to their lands because they weren't Christians. That the first Christian Nations to discover an area of heathen lands has the absolute title. This doctrine should be withdrawn and renounced to establish a new basis for relationship between indigenous peoples and other peoples of the world.

  Floyd Red Crow Westerman

  Christian, Land, World

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• Whatever we once were, we are no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Buddhist, Nations

  "Obama’s 2006 Speech on Faith and Politics". Barack Obama's keynote at the Call to Renewal's Building a Covenant for a New America conference in Washington, D.C., www.nytimes.com. June 28, 2006.

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• If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.

  Stephen Colbert

  Christian, Jesus, Selfish

  "Ice cream? Immigration? 12 ways Colbert kept truthiness alive" by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, www.today.com. April 10, 2014.

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• I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Book, Writing

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• I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good - Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a Biblical duty. We are called by God to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism.

  Randall Terry

  Christian, Country, Hate

  "Guess Who Came to the Palin Rally?". www.thedailybeast.com. October 30, 2008.

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• Our goal must be simple. We must have a Christian nation built on God's law, on the ten Commandments. No apologies.

  Randall Terry

  Christian, Apology, Simple

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• Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Mind Blowing, Islam

  "Anti-Obama Mail Piece: ‘We Are No Longer a Christian Nation’" by Peter Hamby, politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com. October 31, 2012.

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• The United States is no more a Christian nation because most of its citizens are Christians than it is a 'white' nation because most of its citizens are white. We are Americans because we practice democracy and believe in republican government, not because we practice revealed religion and believe in Bible-based government.

  John Stuart Mill

  Christian, Believe, Government

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• We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Mind Blowing, Islam

  The President's News Conference With President Abdullah Gul of Turkey in Ankara, Turkey, April 6, 2009.

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• It wouldn't matter if every single President since Washington had been a Bible-toting, evangelical Christian. They weren't, of course, but even if they had been, it still would not change the secular foundation of our republic. Christians like to quote various Presidents or Supreme Court Justices who (quite incorrectly) have referred to our "Christian nation." But what do those quotes prove? I could quote Richard Nixon, but would that prove that ours was intended to be a nation of crooks?

  Judith Hayes

  Christian, Justice, Atheism

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• What's most remarkable about the conservative activists who promote a small, hysterical group of conspiracy theorists claiming a Muslim theocracy is the greatest threat facing America today is that they are also promoters of the mythology that America was founded and should be governed as a Christian nation - or, when they're feeling magnanimously ecumenical, a "Judeo-Christian" nation.

  Sarah Posner

  Christian, America, Feelings

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• Only recently has part of America challenged the long-held assumption that America is a Christian nation. Most citizens do not recognize just how quickly we have moved in an anti-Christian direction.

  Daniel Lapin

  Christian, Religious, America

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