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America
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." -- Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration of Independence

"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." -- George Washington

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." -- Thomas Jefferson

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." -- Thomas Jefferson

"Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure." -- Thomas Jefferson

"The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted." -- James Madison

"It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't." -- Martin Van Buren

"It is not strange . . . to mistake change for progress." -- Millard Fillmore

"An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory." -- Millard Fillmore

"The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution." -- Franklin Pierce

"The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among freemen." -- James Buchanan

"The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people." -- Andrew Johnson

"He serves his party best who serves the country best." -- Rutherford B. Hayes

"Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce." -- James A. Garfield

"The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it." -- Chester A. Arthur

"We Americans have no commission from God to police the world." -- Benjamin Harrison

"In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest." -- William McKinley

"Speak softly and carry a big stick." -- Theodore Roosevelt

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt

"Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution." -- William H. Taft

"Ambition is a commendable attribute without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils." -- Warren G. Harding

"I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say." -- Calvin Coolidge

"Peace is not made at the Council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men." -- Herbert Hoover

"Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty." -- Herbert Hoover

"You can not stop the spread of an idea by passing a law against it." -- Harry Truman

"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties." -- Harry Truman

"There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly." -- John F. Kennedy

"A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself." -- Richard Nixon

"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." -- Gerald Ford

"We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles." -- Jimmy Carter

"America is too great for small dreams. -- Ronald Reagan

"We are a nation that has a government—not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth." -- Ronald Reagan

"The most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'" -- Ronald Reagan

"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin." -- Ronald Reagan

"Man is not free unless government is limited." -- Ronald Reagan

"If you don't feel something strongly you're not going to achieve." -- George W. Bush

"Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war." -- Donald Trump

Faith
“God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.” -- Augustine (AD 354-AD 430)

"Faith is a living and unshakable confidence. a belief in God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake." -- Martin Luther (1483-1546)

"I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping and assuredly believing through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting; and my body to the earth, whereof it is made." -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

"Employ whatever God has entrusted you with, in doing good, all possible good, in every possible kind and degree." -- John Wesley (1703-1791)

"Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life." -- Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)

"Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life." -- Jonathan Edwards

"Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will." -- Jonathan Edwards

"The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart." -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

"Sir, that Book is the Rock on which our Republic rests!" -- Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)

"Never lose an opportunity for seeing anything that is beautiful; For beauty is God’s handwriting–a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, And thank God for it as a cup of His blessing." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

"In regard to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to men. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book. But for it we could not know right from wrong." -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." -- Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)

"Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet anchor of your liberties; write its precepts on your hearts and practice them in your lives. To the influence of this book we are indebted for the progress made, and to this we must look as our guide in the future." -- Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885)

"Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do." -- Andrew Murray (1828-1917)

“I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him. I ended up by asking God to do His work though me.” -– Hudson Taylor (1832-1905)

“There is a living God. He has spoken in the Bible. He means what he says and will do all he has promised.” -– Hudson Taylor

"If God is your partner, make your plans BIG!" -- D. L. Moody (1837-1899)

"The more profoundly we study this Book and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation." -- William McKinley (1843-1901)

"Almost every man who by his life-work added to the sum of human achievement of which the race is proud, of which our people are proud, almost every such man has based his life-work largely upon the teachings of the Bible." -- Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)

“He said “Love...as I have loved you.” We cannot love too much.” -- Amy Carmichael (1867-1951)

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows; it empties today of its strength.” -- Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983)

“Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it. A man is powerful on his knees.” -- Corrie ten Boom

“Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one.” -- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." -- C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)

"I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." -- C. S. Lewis

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one." -- C. S. Lewis

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell." -- C. S. Lewis

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear." -- C. S. Lewis

"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained." -- C. S. Lewis

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." -- C. S. Lewis

"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing." -- C. S. Lewis

"Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods." -- C. S. Lewis

“I remember the thrill that was mine when, in one of my first meetings, I led my first soul to Christ in America. And he was one of my own countrymen.” -- Mitsuo Fuchida (1902-1976)

"One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons." -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)

"If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under." -- Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)

"The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‘O God, forgive me,’ or ‘Help me.’" -- Billy Graham (b. 1918)

“The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.” -- Billy Graham

“Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.” -- Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015)

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot (1927-1956)

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” -- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase." -- Martin Luther King Jr.

“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him” -- John Piper (b. 1946)

"Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life." -- Ravi Zacharias (b. 1946)

“We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.” -- Max Lucado (b. 1955)

“A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.” -- Max Lucado

“We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.” -- Francis Chan (b. 1967)

"Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations." -- Deuteronomy 7:9