"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...
It
seems to me that 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."
Get American Minute-Notable Events of American Significance Remembered on the Date They OccurredOn NOVEMBER 9, 1940, President Franklin D Roosevelt prayed:
"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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