Quotes and Realities
- In God We Trust
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"My slanderers pursue me all day long; many are attacking me in their pride. When I am afraid, I will trust in you [God]. In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me?... For you have delivered me from death and my feet from stumbling [for those who follow you], that I may walk before God in the light of life."
- Psalm 56:2-4, 13 (NIV)
- Joseph Story
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"I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society."
- Joseph Story: Attorney; Jurist, Educator; U.S. Representative, appointed to U.S. Supreme Court by President James Madison, helped revive Harvard School of Law as the first Dane Professor of Law, along with Chancellor James Kent is known as "Father of American Jurisprudence."
Quoted from: Barton, David, Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion (Aledo, TX: Wallbuilder Press, 2010), 170: originally quoted from Story, Joseph, Life and Letters of Joseph Story, edited by Story, William W. (Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1851), Vol. I, 92.
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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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