"We are under tremendous attacks...
We are attacked by the Communists who in their own documents state
that capitalism - Democracy - carries within itself the seeds of its own destruction,"
- stated President Dwight Eisenhower.
Continuing
his address, NOVEMBER 9, 1954, to the National Conference on the
Spiritual Foundation of American Democracy at the Sheraton-Carlton
Hotel, Washington, DC, President Eisenhower stated:
"We are talking about the
spiritual foundations of our form of government...
Now Dr. Lowry said something about my having certain convictions as to
a God in Heaven and an Almighty power.
Well, I don't think anyone needs a great deal of credit for
believing in what seems to me to be obvious...
This relationship between a spiritual faith, a religious faith, and our form of government is so closely defined and
so obvious that we should really not need to identify a man as unusual because he recognizes it..."
Eisenhower added:
"Milton asserted that
all men are born equal, because each is born in the image of his God.
Our whole theory of government finally expressed in our Declaration...give the reasons to mankind why we had established such a government:
'Man is endowed by his Creator...'
No matter what Democracy tries to do in terms of maximum
individual liberty...in the
economic...in the
intellectual...in providing
a system of justice, and
a system of responsibility...
when you come back to it, there is just one thing...
man is worthwhile because he was born in the image of his God."
Eisenhower concluded:
"The challenges of today...are...because...
our spiritual convictions as to the worth-whileness of this form of government,
weakens...
Democracy is nothing in the world but a spiritual conviction, a conviction that
each of us is enormously valuable, because of a certain standing before our own God.
Now,
any group that binds itself together to awaken all of us to these
simple things...is, in my mind, a dedicated, patriotic group that can
well
take the Bible in one hand and
the a flag in the other, and march ahead."
On NOVEMBER 9, 1940, President Franklin D Roosevelt proclaimed:
"In a year which has seen
calamity and sorrow fall upon many peoples elsewhere in the world may we give thanks for our preservation...
Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage;
We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will...
Save us from violence, discord, and confusion...
Defend our liberties, and
fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindreds and tongues.
Endue with the spirit of wisdom
those to whom in Thy Name we entrust the authority of government, that there may be justice and peace at home, and that,
through obedience to Thy law, we may show forth Thy praise among the nations of the earth...
In the day of trouble, suffer not our trust in Thee to fail; Amen."
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