President’s Day
What United States Presidents have said about the Bible
Vol. IX, No. 2, February 1996
** George Washington (1st Pres.) “It is impossible to rightly govern the world without the Bible.”
** John Adams (2nd) “The Bible is the best book in the world. It contains more ... than all the libraries I have seen”
** Thomas Jefferson (3rd) “The Bible makes the best people in the world”
** John Quincy Adams (6th) “It is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue”
** Andrew Jackson (7th) “That book, sir, is the rock on which our Republic rests.”
** Zachary Taylor (12th) “It was for the love of the truths of this great book that our fathers abandoned their native shore for the wilderness”
** Abraham Lincoln (16th) “But for this Book we could not know right from wrong. I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man”
** Ulysses S. Grant (18th) “The Bible is the Anchor of our liberties.”
** Rutherford B. Hayes (19th) “The best religion the world has ever known is the religion of the Bible. It builds up all that is good.”
** Benjamin Harrison (23rd) “It is out of the Word of God that a system has come to make life sweet.”
** William McKinley (25th) “The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book ... the better citizens we will become.”
** Theodore Roosevelt (26th) “No educated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.”
** Woodrow Wilson (28th) “The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life.”
** Herbert Hoover (31st) “The whole of the inspirations of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ ... to read the Bible ... is a necessity of American life.”
** Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd) “It is a fountain of strength ... I feel that a comprehensive study of the Bible is a liberal education of anyone.”
** Dwight D. Eisenhower (34th) “In the highest sense the Bible is to us the unique repository of eternal spiritual truths.”
[Reprinted from the Southside Beacon Banner, February 1995.]