Quotes on Us History

We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.

Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.

Deep religious beliefs stemming from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible inspired many of the early settlers of our country, providing them with the strength, character, convictions, and faith necessary to withstand great hardship and danger in this new and rugged land. These shared beliefs helped forge a sense of common purpose among the widely dispersed colonies - a sense of community which laid the foundation for the spirit of nationhood that was to develop in later decades.

The potential for greatness lives within us all.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

the better angels of our nature

The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.