We Need The Wisdom Of Our Founding Fathers

When one reads some of the sayings of our early American leaders, you can see why this nation survived and prospered. Many of them were devout Christians and even the ones who were skeptics or atheists, held deep biblical moral and ethical virtues and principles. These are all gone now and we elect people, not for their wisdom and morality but for their charisma and their promises of handouts. All Americans ought to heed their advice and perchance, we might yet save this nation from self-destruction.

I have garnered some of the best quotes from our forefathers that I could find and hope my readers will consider each one.

One of our most eloquent, moral and decent men of renown was Daniel Webster. Listen to the wisdom of his words:

"If we work upon marble it will perish. If we work upon brass time will efface it. If we rear temples they will crumble to dust. But if we work upon men's immortal minds, if we imbue them with high principles, with the just fear of God and love of their fellow men, we engrave on those tablets something which no time can efface, and which will brighten and brighten to all eternity." (taken from a speech given at Faneuil Hall concerning monuments)

This quote reminds us of something that Jesus Christ did when he instituted the Lord's Supper as His memorial. In His wisdom, He knew that all physical things perish, but that this supper would endure as long as there remained devout followers of Him on this earth.

More wisdom from Daniel Webster:

(Concerning murder) "Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life."

(Concerning war) "If war should sweep our commerce from the seas, another generation will restore it. If war exhausts our treasury, future industry will replenish it. If war desiccate and lay waste our fields, under new cultivation they will grow green again and ripen to future harvest. If the walls of yonder Capitol should fall and its decorations be covered by the dust of battle, all these can be rebuilt. But who shall reconstruct the fabric of a demolished government; who shall dwell in the well-proportioned columns of constitutional liberty; who shall frame together the skillful architecture which unites sovereignty with state's rights, individual security with prosperity?"

{Note: How times have changed. Now if war exhausts our treasury we will borrow more and print more to replenish it. We will all turn into Robin Hoods, we will steal and rob from the rich and give to those who won't work.}

(Concerning George Washington) "America has furnished to the world the character of Washington! And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind."

And here are quotes from various other men of wisdom:

"The [federal] government can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, an oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any other despotic or oppressive form so long as there shall remain any virtue in the body of the people." (George Washington)

"Without morals a republic cannot subsist for any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime & pure, [and] which denounces against the wicked eternal misery, and [which] insured to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments." (The life and correspondence of James McHenry).

"Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, or ever will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting Colony, that those united Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States." (John Quincy Adams)

"The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves." (W. E. Channing)

A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason, no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. (Alexander Solzsinitsvn)

"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." (Thomas Jefferson)

"We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us." (Abraham Lincoln)

"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves. And under a just God, cannot long retain it." (Abraham Lincoln)

Many men have, through their own self righteousness, denied God and the Christian religion citing the reason that so many wars have been fought in the name of religion (Christianity included) and much slaughter has resulted. What they cannot perceive is that those thing they enumerate are in no way Christian. Simply because one may persist in wearing the name, has no bearing upon his being one. Christians are the true followers of the doctrine of Jesus Christ, with humility and compassion. Never will you read the words of Jesus say or infer that you should slay those who differ with you. The true morals, ethics and virtues taught by Him, His apostles and other New Testament Christians are exactly what it requires to remain a strong and safe people. Regardless of whether a man is Christian or atheist, or anywhere in between, his good principles and virtues are from the teachings of the Bible.

Many atheists become indignant and even angry if they feel you are accusing them of being immoral or evil simply because they do not believe the Bible. That is not true of course, but what they dislike to admit is that if they are honest and have high morals, the Bible is the origin of those principles.

 

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