<b>Patrick Henry</b> - 
Ratifier of the U.S. Constitution
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~It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ . For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.~
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--The Trumpet Voice of Freedom: Patrick Henry of Virginia, p. iii.
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~The Bible ... is a book worth more than all the other books that were ever printed.~
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--Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry, p. 402.
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<b>John Jay</b> - 1st Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and President of the American Bible Society
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~By conveying the Bible to people thus circumstanced, we certainly do them a most interesting kindness. We thereby enable them to learn that man was originally created and placed in a state of happiness, but, becoming disobedient, was subjected to the degradation and evils which he and his posterity have since experienced.
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~The Bible will also inform them that our gracious Creator has provided for us a Redeemer , in whom all the nations of the earth shall be blessed; that this Redeemer has made atonement ~for the sins of the whole world,~ and thereby reconciling the Divine justice with the Divine mercy has opened a way for our redemption and salvation; and that these inestimable benefits are of the free gift and grace of God, not of our deserving, nor in our power to deserve.~
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--In God We Trust — The Religious Beliefs and Ideas of the American Founding Fathers, p. 379.</i>
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