American Heritage
This page is dedicated to the understanding that our country was founded on the ideas and principles of God's Holy Word. Our forefathers when forming the laws of this great country, used as a basis for those laws, the Word of God. Since the late 1940's there began a shift away from using the Holy Word of God as a basis for interpreting and justifying rulings by our court systems in the United States. This liberal and ungodly thinking has lead our country into an era that will take the Prince of Peace and our Great High Priest, Yeshua, to correct.
If we are to have any hope in this present day, we must return to the knowledge of God's Holy Word and his laws and precepts. It is for this reason we dedicate this page to America's God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations by William J. Federer. He has compiled Highlights of America's Noble Heritage, Profound Quotes from Founding Fathers, Presidents, Statesmen, Scientists, Constitutions and Court Decisions.
William J. Federer has done an excellent job in compiling these sources. This page only contains a small sampling of his work and I encourage all Americans who are searching for truth about our government, laws and how our forefathers established our systems of jurisprudence.
I pray that in reading these quotes from this source that we will once again come to understand the importance that our forefathers placed upon the laws and precepts of God's Holy Word. I also pray that this will bring light where there was once darkness and understanding where there was ignorance.
Continental Congress July 8, 19776, for the first time read the Declaration of Independence publicly, as the famous “Liberty Bell” was rung. Congress then established a three-man committee, consisting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, for the purpose of designing a great seal for the United States.
Benjamin Franklin’s suggestions for a seal and motto, characterizing the spirit of this new nation, were:
Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the red sea, and pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: “Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.”
Thomas Jefferson proposed:
“ The children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.”
The 56 signers of the declaration of Independence paid a tremendous price for our freedom: 5 were arrested by the British as traitors, 12 had their homes looted and burned by the enemy, 17 lost their fortunes, 2 lost sons in the Continental Army and fought and died during the Revolutionary War.
Congress of the United States of America May 1854, passed a resolution in the House which declared:
The great vital and conservative element in our system is the belief or our people in the pure doctrines and divine truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969), the 34th President of the United States, was also the Supreme Commander of Allied Forces during World War II. On the night of July 10, 1943, General Eisenhower observed the armada of 3000 naval ships that he had ordered to battle, sailing from Malta to the shores of Sicily. He saluted his men, then bowed his head in prayer. To the officer next to him he commented:
“ There comes a time whey you’ve used your brains, your training, your technical skill, and the die is cast and the events are in the hands of God, and there you have to leave them.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was the famous American poet who wrote the Concord Hymn, 1936. This poem made famous the Revolutionary War battle at Concord, Massachusetts, with the phrase “the shot heard around the world.” Ralph Waldo Emerson acknowledged:
“All I have seen has taught me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), was the famous Italian astronomer who conceived the idea for the isochroous pendulum, invented the sector-compass and made the first practical use of the telescope. Galileo stated:
“ I am inclined to think that the authority of Holy Scripture is intended to convince men of those truths which are necessary for their salvation, which, being far above man’s understanding, can not be made credible by any learning, or any other means than revelation by the Holy Spirit.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) author, architect, educator and scientist, was the 3rd President of the United States of America. In 1781 Thomas Jefferson made this statement in Query XVIII of his Notes on the State of Virginia. Excerpts of these statements are engraved on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
“God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, assassinated) was the 16th President of the United States of America. In July of 1861, after the Union army was defeated at the Battle of Bull Run, President Abraham Lincoln declared the fourth Thursday in September, the 26th, as a National Day of Prayer and Fasting:
“ It is fit and becoming in all people, at all times, to acknowledge and revere the Supreme Government of God; to bow in humble submission to his chastisement; to confess and deplore their sins and transgressions in the full conviction that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; and to pray, with all fervency and contrition, for the pardon of their past offenses, and for a blessing upon their present and prospective action.”