Presidents and Governments: The Past, the Present, and the Eternal
What have former United States Presidents said about God, the Bible and Christianity? What do our current presidential candidates have to say? What does Scripture say about any of this? Let's first take a look at some quotes from former Presidents: -- "It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible" [George Washington]. -- "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]. -- "We recognize no sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!" [John Adams] -- "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 Monroe]. -- "We have staked the whole future of American civilization not on the power of government, far from it. We have staked the whole of our political institutions upon the capacity of manki