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An appeal to arms and to God of Hosts is all that is left us! There is a just God who presides over all destinies of nations; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to be strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me, give me Liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry
Partial Oration given at St. John’s Church,
Richmond, Virginia, March 23, 1775
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The last of the 16 articles in the Virginia Bill of Rights, authored by George Mason, and forerunner to the United States Bill of Rights, reads: That Religion, or the Duty which we owe to our Creator, and the Manner of discharging it, can be directed only by Reason and Conviction, not by Force of Violence; and therefore, all Men are equally entitled to the free exercise of Religion, according to the Dictates of Conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian Forbearance, love, and Charity, towards each other.
Article XVI
The Virginia Declaration of Rights
June 12, 1776
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It is interesting to note that in Noah Webster’s first dictionaries, he often used Scripture verses to describe and explain the meanings and import of much vocabulary and syntax.
How is it then, that scripture, prayer and Christian values which were all so prevalent in America’s foremost textbooks and dictionaries, have been in recent years expunged from all of Webster’s original works – and banned from the public schools domain.
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Abraham Lincoln
“that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and this government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.”
Taken from the Gettysburg address
November 19, 1863
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The Star-Spangled Banner
Most people don’t know that the Star-Spangled Banner actually has 4 versus. We normally hear only the first verse. The last verse is reprinted here.
O thus be it ever when free men shall stand
Between their loved homes and war desolation!
Blest with victory and peace may the Heaven rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must when our cause it is just
And this be our motto: In God is our trust.
And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
September 14, 1814
Francis Scott Key
The above excerpts are from a book entitled: A MIRACLE That Changed the World by W. Cleon Skousen
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