Statements Concerning the Bible

  

 

The Bible According to Famous Judges, Educators, and Statesmen

“The Bible is a book worth more than all the other books that were ever printed”

Patrick Henry

“The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society, the best book for regulating the temporal (that is secular) concerns of men.”

Noah Webster

“The Bible should be read in our schools in preference to all other books from its containing the greatest portion of that kind of knowledge which is calculated to produce private and public happiness.”

Dr. Benjamin Rush

“To the free and universal reading of the Bible…men (are) much indebted for right views of civil liberty. The Bible is…a book which teaches man his own individual responsibility, his own dignity, and his equality with his fellow man.”

Daniel Webster

“All societies of man must be governed in some way or other. The less they may have of stringent state government, the more they must have of individual self-government. The less they rely on public law or physical force, the more they must rely on private moral restraint. Man, in a word, must necessarily be controlled; either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the Word of God or by the strong arm of man.”

John Quincy Adams