I define the terms "founding fathers" and "founders" broadly to include an entire generation or two of Americans from many walks of life who, in the …

- Daniel L Dreisbach

Nations, as well as individuals, must be virtuous and righteous if they desire to be stable, prosperous, and tranquil.

- Daniel L Dreisbach

The true greatness of a nation lies in its character, not in its economic or military power.

- Daniel L Dreisbach

Just as the children of Israel were directed by God to depart from the land of their oppression with its tyrannical monarch, cross a great sea, and e…

- Daniel L Dreisbach

God elevates nations that behave in conformity with God's standards but he withdraws his blessings from a people who disregard those standards.

- Daniel L Dreisbach

Most of what the founders knew about the Hebraic republic, it must be emphasized, they learned from the Bible. These Americans were well aware that i…

- Daniel L Dreisbach

God ordained and established civil government, but only to serve the common good. A civil government that oppresses its people and acts contrary to t…

- Daniel L Dreisbach

There were many Americans in the Revolutionary era who believed that they, like the children of Israel, were oppressed by their colonial rulers, and …

- Daniel L Dreisbach

I contend that no book figured more prominently than the Bible in the political thought of these patriots we call the founders.

- Daniel L Dreisbach