The Bible and Presidents

George Washington
"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible."

"Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics."

Thomas Jefferson
"The 1st amendment has created a wall of separation between church and state, but that wall is a one directional wall, it keeps the government from running the church, but it makes sure that Christian principles will always stay in government."

"I have always said and will always say that the studious perusal of the Sacred Volume will make better citizens, better fathers, better husbands, the Bible makes the best people in the world."

James Madison
"We have staked the whole future of American civilization not on the power of government, not in the Constitution, but upon the capacity of each and every one of us to govern ourselves according to the Ten Commandments."

John Quincy Adams
"The first and almost the only book deserving of universal attention is the Bible. I speak as a man of the world . . . and I say to you, 'Search the Scriptures.'"

"My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising. it seems to me the most suitable manner of beginning the day. it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue."

"So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members of society."

"From the time of the Declaration of Independence, the American People were bound by the laws of the gospel of Jesus Christ, which they all acknowledge as the root of their conduct. We all came together to obey the word of God."

"I reverence God as my creator. As creator of the world. I reverence him with holy fear. I venerate Jesus Christ as my redeemer; and, as far as I can understand, the redeemer of the world. "

Andrew Jackson
"The Bible is the Rock on which our Republic rests."

Abraham Lincoln
"I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book. But for it we could not know right from wrong."

"It is the duty of nations as well as men to recognize the truth announced in Holy Scriptures and proven by all of history that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord."

"My concern is not whether God is on our side. My great concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."

Ulysses S. Grant
"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."

William McKinley
"The more profoundly we study the Bible and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the more better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation."

Theodore Roosevelt
"To every man who faces life with real desire to do his part in everything, I appeal for a study of the Bible."

"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."

Woodrow Wilson
"I have a very simple thing to ask of you. I ask every man and woman in this audience that from this day on they will realize that part of the destiny of America lies in their daily perusal of this great Book (the Bible)."

Calvin Coolidge
"The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of the law for the virtues of men."

Herbert Hoover
"The study of the Bible is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience."

Harry Truman
"The fundamental basis of this nation's law was given to Moses on the Mont. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teaching we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah, and St. Paul. I don't think we emphasize that enough these days. If we don't have the proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in the right for anybody except the state."

Ronald Reagan
"Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face."