Letter: Our national motto — In God we trust

Published 8:16 pm Friday, May 1, 2020

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Our children and grandchildren in the United States are in danger of having “in God we trust” outlawed in their schools by radical atheists and secularists who have banished prayer, the Bible and the Ten Commandments.

“As Christians, the Bible calls us to be salt and light to influence our culture.” — Dr. Ben Carson

“It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.” — George Washington

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“If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed.” — Thomas Jefferson

“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.” — John Adams

“A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.” — James Madison

“Where there is no law, there is not liberty.” — Founding Father Benjamin Rush

“…To secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” — United States Declaration of Independence

“The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.” — Andrew Jackson

“If it be asked what is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our securty in a republic? The answer would be an inviolable respect for the Constitution and laws.” — Founding Father Alexander Hamilton

“A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” — Founding Father Benjamin Franklin

“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty.” — Founding Father Patrick Henry

“When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.” — Founding Father Thomas Paine

“No people will tamely surrender their liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved.” — Founding Father Samuel Adams

Mavis Jacobs

Albert Lea