"No compact among men ... can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other."
—George Washington, draft of first Inaugural Address, 1789
"With malice toward none and charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in?"
—Abraham Lincoln
"The rights of man came not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God."
—John Kennedy
"If we ever forget that we are one nation under God then we will be a nation gone under."
—Ronald Reagan
"We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God."
—Harry Truman
"Let us raise the standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God."
—George Washington
"The constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
—John Adams
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