“Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.” AmericaNationsReligiousPrayerLibertyCrimeGreatnessMereVanityDeceptionHypocrisyFraudTyrantsSavagesVeilsSermonsHollowOur PrayersDisgraceMockeryParadesHymnsAbolitionCover UpsBrassSwellingSolemnityLiberty And EqualityImpudence Author:Frederick Douglass
“In reading over the Constitutions of all fifty of our states, I discovered something which some of you may not know: there is in all fifty, without exception, an appeal or a prayer to the Almighty God of the universe. Through all fifty state Constitutions, without exception, there runs this same appeal and reference to God who is the Creator of our liberties and the preserver of our freedoms.” KnowsMayStatesRunningUniverseReadingPrayerLibertyConstitutionCreatorAppealsFiftyExceptionAlmightyAlmighty God Author:D. James Kennedy
“'Tis Liberty that crowns Britannia's isle, and makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile... 'Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, and hold in balance each contending state, To threaten bold presumptuous kings with war, and answer her afflicted neighbours' prayer... Soon as her fleets appear their terrors cease.” WarStatesCarePrayerAnswersLibertyWatchesFateRocksKingsBalanceMountainEuropeTerrorCeaseBritainCrownsNeighbourBarrenBleakIslePresumptuousContending Author:Joseph Addison
“Zealous groups threaten to infringe civil liberties when they seek government support to impose their own religious views on nonadherents. This has taken many forms, including attempts to introduce organized prayer in public schools, to outlaw birth control and abortion, and to use public tax revenues to finance religious schools.” UseGovernmentSchoolFormReligiousPrayerViewsLibertySupportTakenGroupsAtheismBirthTaxesIncludingPositive AtheismFinanceOrganizedAbortionIntroducingRevenuePublic SchoolCivil LibertiesBirth ControlOutlawZealousReligious Views Author:Norman Dorsen
“Religion is a personal, private matter and parents, not public school officials, should decide their children's religious training. We should not have teacher-led prayers in public schools, and school officials should never favor one religion over another, or favor religion over no religion (or vice versa). I also believe that schools should not restrict students' religious liberties. The free exercise of faith is the fundamental right of every American, and that right doesn't stop at the schoolhouse door.” ShouldBelieveChildrenMatterHumorSchoolPoliticalParentReligiousPrayerLibertyTeacherDoorsStudentsExerciseTrainingFundamentalsVicesFavorsOfficialsPublic SchoolVice VersaPolitical HumorReligious Liberty Author:George W. Bush
“The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.--as motivation. Here performance is a necessity to secure the blessings and avoid the curses. Grace, on the other hand, allows us to serve on a different basis--not from fear but on the basis of love and gratitude, from appreciation and gladness for blessings freely given and freely received.” MenLoveDifferentUseHandsAgeLawMotivationEvilGivenFearFreedomPrayerSinLibertyGraceGratitudeBlessingDemandPerformancesBasesTragedyShameTerrorAppreciationPunishmentSecureCurseRejectionEtcGood WorkGladnessAnswered PrayersLove And GratitudeUnansweredUnanswered PrayersPersonal Tragedy Author:Richard Jordan
“Let us hear the peal of a new international liberty bell that calls us all to the creation of a system of enforceable world law in which the universal desire for peace can place its hope and prayers.” WorldLawDesirePrayerLibertyCreationUniversalInternationalBellsLiberty Bell Author:Walter Cronkite
“Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. . . . . . . Prayer is the first and the last lesson in learning the noble and brave art of sacrificing self in the various walks of life culminating in the defence of one's nation's liberty and honour.” FirstsArtSelfActionLastsNationsPrayerWalksLibertySacrificeLessonsUnderstoodInstrumentsBraveVariousNobleHonourIdleAmusementDefenceOld WomanWalks Of Life Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“We can be deeply thankful that we live in a land where reason and religion are friends and allies in the cause of liberty, joined against the evils and dangers of the day. And you can be certain of this: Any believer in religious freedom, any person who has knelt in prayer to the Almighty, has a friend and ally in me. And so it is for hundreds of millions of our countrymen: we do not insist on a single strain of religion - rather, we welcome our nation's symphony of faith.” PersonsReasonCertainEvilNationsCausesReligiousPrayerLibertyMillionsLandDangerBelieverWelcomeAlliesAlmightyStrainSymphonyReligious FreedomCountrymen Author:Mitt Romney
“The liberty, prosperity, and the happiness of our country will always be the object of my most fervent prayers to the Supreme Author of All Good.” CountryPrayerLibertyObjectsProsperitySupremeOur CountryFerventFervent Prayer Book:James Monroe, 1758-1831: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids Source: James Monroe, 1758-1831: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids
“There goes many a ship to sea, with many hundred souls in one ship, whose weal and woe is common, and is a true picture of a commonwealth or a human combination or society. It hath fallen out sometimes that Papists, Protestants, Jews, and Turks may be embarked in one ship; upon which supposal I affirm that all the liberty of conscience that ever I pleaded for turns upon these two hinges: that none of the Papists, Protestants, Jews, or Turks be forced to come to the ships prayers or worship, nor be compelled [restrained] from their own particular prayers or worship, if they practice any.” IfsHumansMayTwoSoulSometimesTurnsPrayerCommonLibertyPracticeSeaParticularWorshipHundredConscienceJewShipsCombinationFallenWoeCompelledProtestantsCommonwealthHinges Author:Roger Williams
“If religion and churches are truly threats to our liberties, how did those liberties survive, and in such healthy condition, all those years of classroom prayer and Bible-reading?” IfsYearsChristianReadingChurchReligiousPrayerLibertyConditionsHealthyThreatClassroomBible Reading Author:William Murchison