From: aultj@rpi.edu (Jim Ault)
Subject: Re: Presidential quote...
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
	<1992Dec21.205707.16360@news.acns.nwu.edu>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:37:36 GMT


Here's a few of my favorites:

   A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, 
 does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do.
 We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we
 came from or what we have been about.
     -Woodrow Wilson

  
 "We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon
 the power of government, far from it.  We have staked the future of
 all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of
 self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern
 ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to
 the Ten Commandments of God."  
		- James Madison


 "... Religion ... [is] the basis and foundation of government ...
 before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he
 must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe."
		- James Madison


 "No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand
 which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United
 States.  Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an
 independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of
 providential agency....  We ought to be no less persuaded that the
 propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that
 disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has
 ordained."
	- George Washington, in his first Inaugural Address


 "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with
 human passions unbridled by morality and religion.  Avarice,
 ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our
 Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is
 designed only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly
 inadequate for any other."  
		- John Adams

  
 On September 19, 1796, George Washington bade farewell to Congress.
 Immensely popular with the people (who were already calling him 
 the Father of the Country), he now made it unequivocally clear
 how important he felt was the importance of Church upon State:
  
 "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political 
 prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports....
 And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality
 can be maintained without religion... reason and experience
 both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail
 in exclusion of religious principle."
	 - September 19, 1796, 
	   George Washington bidding farewell to Congress.


   "God who gave us life gave us liberty.Can the liberties of a nation
    be sure when we remove their only firm basis, a conviction in the
    minds of the people, that these liberties are the gift of God?
    That they are not to be violated but with his wrath?  Indeed, I
    tremble for my country, when I reflect that God is just; that His
    justice cannot sleep forever, that revolution of the wheel of
    fortune, a change of situation, is among the possible events; that
    it may become probable by supernatural influence!  The Almighty
    has no attribute which can take side with us in that event."
                                 - Thomas Jefferson
--
Jim Ault, ITS Systems Programmer, aultj@rpi.edu    <><

"The Social Democratic government on Friday began dismantling the welfare state
it built, proposing sharp cuts in benefits and state jobs to stop the country's
economic decline." -- AP Stockholm, Sweden 10/26/90
Too bad the US Congress doesn't read the news, it could learn something.