My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
It can not 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!
Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise, and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.
Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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 favors.
Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.
We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!
the better angels of our nature
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion.
Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.
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