Personally, I want to know their grounding in the Bible, which is the foundation of all true education, and of our free republic.
“The rights of the colonists as Christians … may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institutes of the Great Law Giver and Head of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament.”
- Samuel Adams
“The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.”
“The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”
- John Adams
“There is a book [the Bible] worth all the other books ever printed.”
- Patrick Henry
“The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts.”
- John Jay
“The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.”
“Let the children…be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.”
- Benjamin Rush
“Education is useless without the Bible.”
- Daniel Webster
“In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed … No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.”
- Noah Webster
“In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man’s welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.”
“I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.”
- Abraham Lincoln
“To educate the mind and not the morals is to educate a menace to society’’.— Teddy Roosevelt.