Happy Independence Day 2010

 

“This Independence Day we must remember what our nation was founded upon and why. All through history governments had controlled when, how and even what was to be worshiped. The Founders of this nation want a nation where a man could worship freely, without restrictions, his God. This freedom was for all religions, but was specifically intended for Christianity simply because virtually all of the Founding Fathers were Christians,( no matter what they are teaching in our public schools that contradicts this truth-inserted by me). This freedom was paid for at a high price for many. Some lost their fortunes. Some lost their families. Many lost their lives. Maintaining this freedom has required the same sacrifice from many others throughout the years. This sacrifice must never be forgotten and should never be taken lightly. It must be honored and duplicated with every generation. Our Founding Fathers knew this but at the same time felt that it was the best way to preserve the honor, integrity and greatness that is the United States of America. Happy Independence Day.” ~ source unknown

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The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.

Washington, George Farewell Address – 1796

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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.

Franklin, Benjamin

 

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We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

John Adams

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The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext infringed.

Madison, James

HAPPY INDEPENENCE DAY!!!

 

“O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

O thus be it ever when free-men shall stand
Between their lov'd home and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust!”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!”

~ Francis Scott Key 1814