Posted on 11/09/2010 4:41:24 AM PST by EternalVigilance
On NOVEMBER 9, 1954, President Eisenhower addressed the National
Conference on the Spiritual Foundation of American Democracy at the
Sheraton-Carlton Hotel, Washington D.C.:
"Now Dr. Lowry said something about my having certain convictions as
to a God in Heaven and an Almighty power.
Well, I don't think anyone needs a great deal of credit for believing
in what seems to me to be obvious...
This relationship between a spiritual faith...and our form of
government is...so obvious that we should really not need to identify
a man as unusual because he recognizes it."
"Our whole theory of government finally expressed in our
Declaration...said...Man is endowed by his Creator...
When you come back to it, there is just one thing...man is worthwhile
because he was born in the image of his God...
Democracy is nothing in the world but a spiritual conviction...that
each of us is enormously valuable, because of a certain standing
before our own God."
"Any group that...awakens all of us to these simple things...is, in
my mind, a dedicated, patriotic group that can well take the Bible in
one hand and the flag in the other, and march ahead."
It’s too bad that the American people lost their minds for twenty years after Ike left office. Kennedy. Johnson. Nixon. Ford. Bleh...
Ike is right behind Reagan as my favorite President.
Neither, actually. Roosevelt signed it into law in 1944 before he died.
That’s for sure!!!
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