Quotes and Realities
- Trust In God - He Is Our Refuge
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"My salvation and my honor depend on God; he is my mighty rock, my refuge. Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge. Selah [possibly meaning reflect or consider] Lowborn men are but a breath, the highborn are but a lie; if weighed on a balance, they are nothing; together they are only a breath. Do not trust in extortion or take pride in stolen goods; though your riches increase, do not set your heart on them. One thing God has spoken, two things have I heard: that you, O God, are strong, and that you O Lord, are loving...."
- Psalm 62:7-11a (NIV)
- John Adams
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"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
- John Adams: Educator, Attorney, Jurist, Diplomat; delegate to the Continental Congress where he signed the Declaration of Independence; appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts; delegate to the Massachusetts constitutional convention and wrote most of the first draft of the Massachusetts Constitution; served two terms as Vice-President under President George Washington; second President of the United States.
Quoted from: Barton, David, Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion (Aledo, TX: Wallbuilder Press, 2010), 188: originally quoted from Adams, John, The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States, edited by Adams, Charles F. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1854), Vol. IX, 229, to Officers of the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Militia of Massachusetts, October 11 1798.
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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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