"Every President of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God ... The guiding principle and prayer of this Nation has been, is now, and shall ever be 'IN GOD WE TRUST.'"
A profound message to pastors is that the most important thing is to bring people to Christ; but the second most important thing is to preserve the freedom to do the most important thing.
"This country was dedicated to ... two propositions ... The Puritans and the Pilgrims of my own section of New England, the Quakers of Pennsylvania, the Catholics of Maryland, the Presbyterians of North Carolina, the Methodists and Baptists who came later, all shared these two great traditions which, like silver threads, have run through the warp and the woof of American History ... First, a strong religious conviction, and secondly, a recognition that this conviction could flourish only under a system of freedom."
President John F. Kennedy on February 9, 1961
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