7.4-Thoughts about the spiritual history of the United States of America

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July 4, 2015

In 1995 I was in Russia on short mission trip and ran into a woman clutching her Bible and holding it to her chest. She came into a session where we were studying the Bible with the people and she explained why her Bible was so important to her. When she was ten years old in 1917 the revolution came and Bibles were banned by Lenin. He family had placed some Bibles in the walls of their home. Isn't it great that America is a country which has certain freedoms built into the foundation documents of our country.

The First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Happy 239th Birthday America

Larry Wishard


“Discipline is the soul of an army.  It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.”
George Washington, Letter of Instructions to the Captains of the Virginia Regiments. 7/29/1759

“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.”
George Washington, first annual address to both houses of congress, 1/8/1790

“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.”
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the state of Virginia


“There is however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.”
Edmund Burke, Observations on a late publication on the Present

“Your representative owes you, not his industry only, But his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.”
Edmund Burke, Speech to the Electors of Bristol, 11/3/1774

“An event has happened upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.”
Edmund Burke, Impeachment of Warren Hastings, 5/5/1789


“Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.”
Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France

“Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.”
Dwight David Eisenhower, Address at Guildhall London, 7/12/1945


“I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.”
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, 1/30/1787

“What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion?....The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.  It is its natural manure.”
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William Stevens Smith, 11/13/1787

“if a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, 1/6/1816

“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.”
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William Charles Jarvis, 9/28/1820

“We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.”
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William Roscoe


“Where you have marriage without love, you will have love without marriage.” Ben Franklin

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