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"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity,
religion and morality are indispensable supports."
George Washington, Father of our Country, First President of the United States
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"God who gave us life, gave us liberty.
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 a gift from God?"
Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States
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"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.
It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
John Adams, Second President of the United States
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"We have been the recipient of the choicest bounties of heaven.
We have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity.
We have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has grown.
But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace,
and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined,
in the deceitfulness of our heart, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own."
Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States
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