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“Mr. Lincoln's maxim and philosophy were: 'What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.' He never joined any Church. He was a religious man always, I think, but was not a technical Christian.”

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Author:Mary Todd Lincoln

“What little recognition the idea of obligation to the public obtains in modern morality, is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not from Christian; as, even in the morality of private life, whatever exists of magnanimity, high-mindeness, personal dignity, even the sense of honour, is derived from the purely human, not the religious part of our education, and never could have grown out of a standard of ethics in which the only worth, professedly recognized, is that of obedience.”

“The Figurehead of American Public Education Who Prefers Private Religious Education (!)All things equal, I would prefer to have a child in a school that has a strong appreciation for the values of the Christian community, where a child is taught to have a strong faith.”

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Author:Rod Paige

“The time has also come to recognize the painful truth that traditional Judeo-Christian moral values of pain and pleasure in human relationships have contributed substantially to child abuse and to the prevalence of physical violence in Western civilization.... The religious system upon which our culture is based holds that pain, suffering and deprivation are moral and necessary to save one's soul and make one a 'good person.' The crucifixion and scourging of Christ are examples.”

“No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus.”

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Author:Fisher Ames

“Why then, if these new books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book ?”

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Book:Works of Fisher Ames

Source: Works of Fisher Ames

“Mr. Marx does not believe in God, but he believes deeply in himself. His heart is filled not with love but with rancor. He has very little benevolence toward men and becomes... furious and... spiteful... when anyone dares question the omniscience of the divinity whom he adores, that is to say, Mr. Marx himself.”

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Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“Religion's crucial role in the lives of many people... is rejected out of hand by the political community, especially the press.”

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Author:Fred Barnes

“The Founders never intended to separate Christianity from government, only to keep a single denomination from running the nation.”

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Book:America, to Pray Or Not to Pray?: A Statistical Look at What Hapened When Religious Principles Were Separated from Public Affairs

Source: America, to Pray Or Not to Pray?: A Statistical Look at What Hapened When Religious Principles Were Separated from Public Affairs

“It is interesting to note that during the last ten years Washington's 'Farewell Address' has begun to reappear in college textbooks - minus the four religious warnings.”

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Author:David Barton

“The Court explained the problem with his writings (People v. Ruggles. 1811.): an attack on Jesus Christ was an attack on Christianity; and an attack on Christianity was an attack on the foundation of the country; therefore, an attack on Jesus Christ was equivalent to an attack on the country!”

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Author:David Barton

“In 1965, in Reed v. Van Hoven, a court determined (237 F.Supp. 48. W.D.Mich. 1965.) that it was permissible for students to pray over their lunch at school so long as no one knew they were praying - that is, they couldn't say words or move their lips, but they could pray only if no one knew about it!”

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Author:David Barton

“In 1967, in DeKalb v. DeSpain, a court (255 F.Supp. 655. N.D.Ill. 1966.) took a 4-line nursery rhyme used by a K-5 kindergarten class and declared the nursery rhyme unconstitutional. The court explained that although the word 'God' was not contained in this nursery rhyme, if someone were to hear the rhyme, he might think that it was talking about God - and that would be unconstitutional!”

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Author:David Barton

“The current version of... separation of church and state says you can be salt, and you can be light, but only inside the four walls of the church.”

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Author:David Barton

“Separation of church and state is the big club pulled out to beat back the Christians .”

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Author:David Barton

“We do have a Godly heritage in America, but we have been robbed - robbed by the 3 percent.”

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Author:David Barton

“Washington's address is virtually unknown today and has not been seen in most American history textbooks in nearly four decades. Perhaps it is because of all the religious warnings Washington made in his 'Farewell Address.'”

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Author:David Barton

“It is evident from their writings that the Founding Fathers would never have tolerated the separation that we have embraced today. They knew that religious principles provided morality and self-control - the lifeblood for the survival of any self-governing community.”

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Author:David Barton

“The 1947 Court (Everson v. Board of Education) for the first time had used only Jefferson's metaphor - completely divorced from its context and intent.”

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Author:David Barton

“In 1962 (Engel v. Vitale), the Supreme Court explained that the word 'church' would no longer mean a federally established denomination; it would now mean a religious activity in public.”

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Author:David Barton

“In the case Stone v. Graham, the Supreme Court ruled that - under 'separation of church and state' - it was unconstitutional for a student in school to even see a copy of the Ten Commandments.”

“The Court abandoned the traditional constitutional meaning of 'religion' as a single denomination or system of worship and instead substituted a new 'modern' concept which even now remains vague and nebulous, having changed several times in recent years.”

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Book:Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion

Source: Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion

“The Founders intended only to prevent the establishment of a single national denomination, not to restrain public religious expressions.”

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Book:Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion

Source: Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion

“The Founders believed that pluralism survived only within the concept of religious liberty espoused by American Christianity.”

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Book:Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion

Source: Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion

“To support its conclusion that 'this is a religious people... this is a Christian nation,' the Court paraded a veritable litany of precedents from American history: taken from Church of the Holy Trinity v. U.S.; 143 U.S. 457-458 (1892).”

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Author:David Barton

“On the issues of religious liberty, the Supreme Court continues to scrape against the bedrock of the American spirit.”

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Book:Our Journey Home: What Parents Are Doing to Preserve Family Values

Source: Our Journey Home: What Parents Are Doing to Preserve Family Values

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Book:Our Journey Home: What Parents Are Doing to Preserve Family Values

Source: Our Journey Home: What Parents Are Doing to Preserve Family Values

“Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?”

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Book:The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children

Source: The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children

“From Samuel Adams to Patrick Henry to Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Hamilton, all the Founders intended religion to provide a moral anchor for our liberty in democracy.”

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Book:Our Children and Our Country: Improving America's Schools and Affirming the Common Culture

Source: Our Children and Our Country: Improving America's Schools and Affirming the Common Culture

“A City University of New York study done in 1991 revealed that nearly 90% of the American people identify themselves religiously as Christians or Jews, while only 7.5 percent claim no religion.”

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Author:William Bennett

“It is ironic that anyone who appeals to religious values today runs the risk of being called 'divisive' or attacked as an enemy of pluralism.”

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Author:William Bennett

“The history of our nation is intertwined with a certain religious tradition, and that the First Amendment was not intended to result in the complete exclusion of religious beliefs from our public classrooms.”

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Book:The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children

Source: The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children

“The new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion.”

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Book:The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children

Source: The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children

“Much of the left-liberal elite despise traditional religious beliefs ... in general, they are profoundly uncomfortable with religious institutions and the traditional values they embody.”

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Book:The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children

Source: The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children

“I have no doubt that the real irritation of those on the religious right is not that their particular creed is not embraced by the schools, but that often their creed is the only one singled out for contempt.”

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Book:The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children

Source: The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children

“What you've got here is really a case of journalists making fun of people who believe in God and the devil.”

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Book:The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children

Source: The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children

“President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.”

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Book:The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children

Source: The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children

“In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.”

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Book:The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children

Source: The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children

“America's only respectable form of bigotry is bigotry against religious people. And the only reason for hatred of religion is that it forces us to confront matters many would prefer to ignore.”

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Author:William Bennett

“People in the church should not accept the notion that the public square is off limits to religious values.”

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Author:Lloyd Billingsley

“One can't imagine a Hollywood film whose entire purpose was to ridicule, say, homosexual activists, feminists, animal rights crusaders, or environmentalists. That would be blasphemy. Hollywood understands that religious people, particularly Christians, are the last group in America besides businessmen who may be defamed with impunity.”

Source: The Seductive Image: Cinema and the Christian Faith

“I think the most important factor moving us toward a secular society has been the educational factor. Our schools may not teach Johnny to read properly, but the fact that Johnny is in school until he is sixteen tends toward the elimination of religious superstition.”

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Author:Paul Blanshard

“It is now quite obvious that the humanists are using public education as the battering ram with which to destroy Christianity in the United States.”

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Author:Samuel Blumenfeld

“Under the First Amendment's prohibition of the establishment of religion, the Court has steadily made religion a matter for the private individual by driving it out of the public arena.”

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Author:Robert Bork

“There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the public mind.”

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Author:Robert Bork

“Reporters treat religion as beneath mention, as personally distasteful, or as a clear and present threat to the American way of life.”

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Author:Robert Bork

“As the courts keep pushing religion out of sight, the press either ignores it or treats it as some sort of emotional affliction. It is hardly any wonder that religion slowly loses its grip on the popular mind.”

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Author:Robert Bork

“If conservatives come to control the White House and both Houses of Congress, there will be very little change in Hollywood, the network evening news, universities, church bureaucracies, the New York Times, or the Washington Post. Institutions that are overwhelmingly left-liberal will continue to misinform the public and distort public discourse.”

“I could show how largely our laws and customs are based upon the laws of Moses and the teachings of Christ; how constantly the Bible is appealed to as the guide of life and the authority in questions of morals... Add a volume of unofficial declaration to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation.”

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Author:David Josiah Brewer

“Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise, and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian.”

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