Quotes and Realities
- God's Word Above All
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"And God spoke all these words: `I am the Lord your God... You shall have no other gods before me... ... You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God....' Furious with rage, [king] Nebuchadnezzar summoned Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.... and said to them... 'if you are ready to fall down and worship the image I made, very good. But if you do not worship it, you will be thrown immediately into a blazing furnace. Then what god will be able to rescue you from my hand? ' Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego replied to the king, 'O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to save us from it... But even if he does not, we want you to know, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.' "
- Exodus 20:1,5, Daniel 3:13,15-18 (NIV)
- John Quincy Adams
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"[T]he Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth.... [and] laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity."
- John Quincy Adams: Diplomat, Attorney; son of John and Abigail Adams; U.S. foreign ambassador under President George Washington to the Netherlands and Portugal, under President John Adams to Prussia, under President James Madison to Russia and England, member of Massachusetts legislature, U.S. Senator, Secretary of State under President James Monroe, sixth President of the United States, member of U.S. House of Representatives, member of Massachusetts Bible Society, Vice-President and member of the American Bible Society, gained reputation for his intense opposition to slavery.
Quoted from: Barton, David, Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion (Aledo, TX: Wallbuilder Press, 2010), 170: originally quoted from Adams, John Quincy, An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport at Their Request on the Sixty-First Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4 1837 (Newburyport: Charles Whipple, 1837), 5-6.
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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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