It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.


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It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. –GEORGE WASHINGTON
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George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roo...
ROBERT DALLEK
The transformation of a nation is impossible without God’s grace
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Without God it is impossible to be victorious
SUNDAY ADELAJA
It is impossible to be prosperous without God.
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Without principles, it is impossible to please God
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Without the fear of God it is impossible to say ‘No’ to temptations and evil
SUNDAY ADELAJA
It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER
It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of...
PAT ROBERTSON
The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain ho...
ERNEST HELLO
Take care of yourself. Good health is everyone's major source of wealth. Without it, happiness is al...
UNKNOWN
A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot gover...
HUGO GROTIUS
The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogm...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
without God, there is no virtue because there's no prompting of the conscience. And without God, dem...
RONALD REAGAN
To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE
He is the purest figure in history. [About George Washington]
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
LAO TZU
It’s not what you get, but what you give that is God’s true measure of a life.
ELIZABETH GEORGE
There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking...
THOMAS PAINE
Thank God that the Bible cannot possibly be the word of God
DONALD MORGAN
I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the w...
ELVIS PRESLEY
It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is imposs...
EPICURUS
Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE
Theocracy has been rightly abolished not because it is bad that learned priests should govern ignora...
C.S. LEWIS
You know what's funny is that I have this ongoing relationship with the city of Washington D.C. ...
KERRY WASHINGTON
Reading the Bible without meditating on it is like trying to eat without swallowing.
UNKNOWN
While the bible is GOD because the word of GOD is GOD, please understand that GOD cannot be containe...
TEMITOPE IBRAHIM
It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes
THOMAS PAINE
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for it...
JOHN LOCKE
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men.- It has God for i...
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Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues hav...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
America has furnished to the world the character of Washington! And if our American institutions h...
DANIEL WEBSTER
Washington--a fixed star in the firmament of great names, shining without twinkling or obscuration,...
DANIEL WEBSTER
That name was a power to rally a nation in the hour of thick-thronging public disasters and calamit...
DANIEL WEBSTER
That name descending with all time, spreading over the whole earth, and uttered in all the language...
DANIEL WEBSTER
While Washington hath left His awful memory, A light for after times.
ROBERT SOUTHEY
His work well done, the leader stepped aside Spurning a crown with more than kingly pride. Con...
JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE
Oh, Washington! thou hero, patriot sage, Friend of all climes, and pride of every age!
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mi...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
This is the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birthday of Washington. We are met to celebra...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen.
GEN. HENRY LEE
First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his fellow citizens.
GEN. HENRY LEE
A nobleness to try for, A name to live and die for.
GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP
Since ancient Time began, Ever on some great soul God laid an infinite burden-- The weight of ...
RICHARD WATSON GILDER
O Washington! thrice glorious name, What due rewards can man decree-- Empires are far below t...
PHILIP FRENEAU
There's a star in the West that shall never go down Till the records of Valour decay, We must ...
ELIZA COOK
Where may the wearied eye repose, When gazing on the Great; Where neither guilty glory glows, ...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON)
While Washington's a watchword, such as ne'er Shall sink while there's an echo left to air.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON)
Simple and brave, his faith awoke Ploughmen to struggle with their fate; Armies won battles wh...
ROBERT BRIDGES ("DROCH")
Our common Father and Deliverer, to whose prudence, wisdom and valour we owe our Peace, Liberty and...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR
Every countenance seeked to say, "Long live George Washington, the Father of the People."
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR
The defender of his country--the founder of liberty, The friend of man, History and tradition ...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR
'Twas his ambition, generous and great A life to life's great end to consecrate.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstanc...
HENRY KNOX
The character, the counsels, and example of our Washington . . . they will guide us through the dou...
EDWARD EVERETT
It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be...
VINCENT CANBY
It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.
CAROL BURNETT
The possible is just the impossible that we've come to accept,
STEWART STAFFORD
It is fashionable in some academic circles to exercise scholarly criticism of the Bible. In so doing...
R.C. SPROUL
George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping?
JEFF MELVOIN
This game is over - dead as George Washington . We've got to keep moving on.
AMANI TOOMER
The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show yo...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Don’t let your personal desires distort the standards established in God’s Word.
JIM GEORGE
It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL
How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLE
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall ...
JOHN DONNE
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to en...
WILLIAM BLAKE
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to ens...
OMAR BRADLEY
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to ens...
HENRY PETER BROUGHAM
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to ensl...
BARON HENRY PETER BROUGHAM
The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.
JUPITER HAMMON
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that he is, a...
BIBLE
Changes are impossible without God either in your life or in the country
SUNDAY ADELAJA
George Washington didn't have to make us laugh; he just had to establish precedents and avoid ch...
ALEXANDRA PETRI
It is hard for anyone who discovers George Washington not to write about him, perhaps because he is ...
EDMUND MORGAN
In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world--God and yourself. Th...
FULTON OURSLER
The Bible is the word of God and his word is life itself.
PHIL BROWN
It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a televi...
JIM BAKKER
When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you have found it the key...
WOODROW T. WILSON
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God ...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG
To suggest that the merciful, longsuffering, gracious and loving God of the Bible would invent a dre...
TIM LAHAYE
The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.
JOHN BARTH
The Bible is real clear that homosexuality is an abomination to God. So to put a homosexual on the s...
TOM LAWSON
Here at Bethel, we believe we're not blessed unless we bless others. The Bible states, 'For God so l...
DONALD BAILEY
[The Bible is] absolutely clear that God created human beings as male and female.
DON HORROCKS
I helped raise mission teams to go to Asia and introduce God and the Bible to different parts of tha...
LARRY HENDERSON
God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.
LEO STRAUSS
But the God of the Bible is not only One, but the only possible One.
LEO STRAUSS
As God once said, and I think rightly...
BERNARD LAW MONTGOMERY
It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.
RICHARD BRAUNSTEIN
The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching...
MALCOLM X
It would be a very nice way to commute, to be able to bike through the upper part of the George Wash...
DOLLEY MADISON
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLE
But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin inclu...
REGGIE WHITE
The human spirit is so great a thing that no man can express it; could we rightly comprehend the min...
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GEORGE WASHINGTON
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
The aggregate happiness of society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is,...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive p...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Compared with the previous occasion when Judge Jackson heard oral argument on the facts in September...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
with humanity, and let them have no reason to complain of our copying the brutal example of the Brit...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
We'll be asking to set aside the Court of Appeals decision.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
After Braddock's Defeat: Terror in the Valley.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Among individuals, the most certain way to make a Man your Enemy, is to tell him you esteem him such...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
with black feathery trim -- because the founding father was ''so stiff.
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far worse than were Congress to enact no measure at all.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
What we're trying to do is use some of the same legal tactics that have been so effective against th...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
You are guilty of murder.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
It's not the way it was when I was growing up. Things have changed.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Obviously, we need to see the details of all the patients and the adverse events to be able to inter...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
I don't think it's a match-up problem. We have two of the best players around. We just didn't execut...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
In the second half, we were down and we couldn't get back up.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Unless there's a judge somewhere who is just dying for a case like this, I think it will be put to a...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in t...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in thei...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude
GEORGE WASHINGTON
May the Father of All Mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths; and, make us in all o...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adop...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, mor...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
The Eyes of all our Countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings, and praises, if h...
GEORGE WASHINGTON