"Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers. And it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest, of a Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers."- First Chief Justice of Supreme Court John Jay.
"Why may not the Bible, and especially the New Testament be read and taught as a divine revelation in the school? Where can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?"- United States Supreme Court, 1844
"The highest story of the American Revolution is this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."- President John Adams
War Between The States
"If you bring these leaders to trial it will condemn the North, for by the Constitution secession is not
rebellion." -Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court privately delivered this opinion on charging captured Confederate officers with treason.
"I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation." -Robert E. Lee spoke these words to his army's chaplains.
"Hello, Massa; bottom rail on top dis time." -A black Union soldier spoke these words to a Confederate prisoner he recognized--his former master.
