"It is impossible to rightly govern the world
without God and the Bible."
George Washington

"I desire so to conduct this administration 
that if at the end, I have lost every other
friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left,
 and that friend shall be down inside me."
Abraham Lincoln

"The Bible is the rock on which our Republic rests."
Andrew Jackson

"Of all the systems of morality that have
come under my observation, 
none appear o pure to me as that of Jesus."
Thomas Jefferson

"Reason and experience both forbid us
to expect that national morality
can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."
George Washington

"So great is my veneration for the Bible
that the earlier my children begin to read it,
 the more confident my hope that they will prove
 useful citizens, and respectful members of society."
John Quincy Adams

"Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity
comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man,
through the fatherhood of God."
Calvin Coolidge"

"While independence is important,
the eternal state of souls is even more so.
There can be no true religion till there be a
discovery of your lost state by nature and practice,
and an unfeigned acceptance of Christ Jesus,
as He is offered in the Gospel.  Unhappy are they who
either despise His mercy or are ashamed of His cross.
Believe it, there is no salvation in any other."
John Witherspoon, signer of the Declaration of Independence

"The church is the only conscience the government has.
When the church is silent, the state can have no conscience."
Edward Grant"

"To the influence of the Bible we are indebted for the progress made
in civilization, and to this we must look as our guide in the future."
Ulysses S. Grant

"Freedom has only the meaning with which men endow it.
It is not enough to pay lip service to the concept of
religious liberty. We must pay heart service to it as well, 
else it remains an empty phrase instead of a living reality."
Kenneth Keating

"There will be no true freedom without virtue,
no true science without religion,
no true industry without the fear of God
and love to your fellow citizens."
Charles Kingsley

"Culture of intellect, without religion in the heart,
is only civilized barbarism and disguised animalism."
Christian Karl von Bunsen

"Ay, call it holy ground, the soil where first they trod: 
They have left unstained what there they found, - - - 
Freedom to worship God."
Felicia D. Hjemas, Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers

"Give us, we pray, the power to discern clearly right from wrong
and allow all our words and actions to be governed thereby."
President Dwight Eisenhower

 ". . . the providence of God may not be what we expect,
  but we can count on the grace of God."
President George W. Bush

    It was the valiant defense of Fort McHenry by American forces during
the British attack on September 13, 1814 that inspired 35-year old, 
poet-lawyer Francis Scott Key to write the poem which was to become
our national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner." The poem was written
to match the meter of the English song, "To Anacreon in Heaven."  In 
1931 the Congress of The United States of America enacted legislation
that made "The Star-Spangled Banner" the official national anthem.

Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wiped out their foul footstep's pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!