Quotes and Realities
- God Our Refuge And Strength
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"God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging.... Come and see the works of the Lord, the desolations he has brought on the earth. He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear, he burns the shields with fire. 'Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.' "
- Psalm 46:1-3, 8-10 (NIV)
- Samuel Adams
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"[T]he only true basis of all government [is] the laws of God and nature. For government is an ordinance of Heaven, designed by the all benevolent Creator."
- Samuel Adams: signer of Declaration of Independence; member of Continental Congress; member of General Court of Massachusetts; formed Boston's Committee of Correspondence; helped draft the Articles of Confederation; signer of the Articles of Confederation; delegate to the Massachusetts constitutional convention; president of the Massachusetts senate; member of state convention to ratify the Federal Constitution; Lieutenant-Governor and Governor of Massachusetts.
Quoted From: Barton, David, Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion (Aledo, TX: Wallbuilder Press, 2010) , 352: originally quoted from Adams, Samuel, The Writings of Samuel Adams, edited by Cushing, Harry Alonzo (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1907), Vol I, 269, "Vindex", December 19 1768.
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Have you ever read the Constitution and wondered “what were the Founders intentions behind this or that phrase?” The US Constitution in the Resources section contains online references to the Federalist Papers – an early work by three founding fathers on the intention of each section of the US Constitution. But, if you are looking for something more lively, you could turn to the records of the continental congress link in the Resources section, under Congressional Records, or Elliot's or Farrand's records of the debates, or read about the intentions in the more personalized correspondence, writings and letters of the founders.
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