Quotes and Realities
- Wisdom From God's Word
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"Like a bad tooth or a lame foot is reliance on the unfaithful in times of trouble.... If your enemy is hungry, give him foot to eat; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head, and the LORD will reward you.... Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked."
- Proverbs 25:19, 21-22, 26 (NIV)
- Thomas Jefferson
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant – and free – in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
- Thomas Jefferson: Attorney, Diplomat, Educator; member of Continental Congress, signer and principle author of the Declaration of Independence, Governor of Virginia, Secretary of State under George Washington, Vice-President under John Adams, third President of the United States, founded the University of Virginia.
Quoted From: Barton, David, Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion (Aledo, TX: Wallbuilder Press, 2010) , 344: originally quoted from Jefferson, Thomas, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Bergh, Albert (Washington DC: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Assoc., 1904), Vol XIV, 384, to Charles Yancey, January 6 1816.
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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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