The Founding Fathers Said...

Here are some quotes that our Founding Fathers made. You may want to consult a dictionary to learn what some of the words meant during the time the quotes were made.

"[W]e ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and
susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early
prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they
are capable of appreciating their own."

-- George Washington (letter to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, 28 January 1795)


"Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants
thereof - Lev. XXV, v. X"

Inscription on the Liberty Bell, from Leviticus 25:10


"With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most
solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the
utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath
graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have compelled by our
enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with
unabating firmness and perseverance employ for the preservation
of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen
rather than to live as slaves."

-- John Dickinson and Thomas Jefferson (Declaration of the Cause
and Necessity of Taking up Arms, 6 July 1775)

Reference: Documents of American History, Commager, ed., vol. 1
(95)


Just a thought about the last one.  It's funny that some quote Thomas Jefferson as someone that thinks God should be separate from government.  The above quote seems to say the opposite.