Bill Haslam Quotes

The United States of America was formed to honor the word of God.

The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.

There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government.

The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation.

New Hampshire is one of the birthplaces of American freedom and independence - a place with a love and a passion for liberty.

People have lost what this nation was built on. I think our core values have been set aside... I believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights.

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

The Founding Fathers are not just some people that happened to get mad a long time ago and want their freedom. They were special people in addition to what their natural yearnings were.

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

… in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress

When I signed the Declaration of Independence I had in view not only our independence from England but the toleration of all sects.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom & Father of the University of Virginia

Let's face it: without the French there would be no America...in other words, without them, there is no us.

Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Why do we not celebrate the 4th of July? The Declaration of Independence is just as precious to me today as it was twenty years ago! Has it not the same validity that it had in 1776?

The great leaders of the American Revolution were determined to remove political support from every religious establishment.

If you seek our Founding Fathers monument, just look around you.

Not enough people really think about the founding of our country, how it all began and what its really about. They don't even teach it in schools any more.

The Founding Fathers gave birth to a new type of nation.

Our history is imperfect, but it has laid the groundwork for the greatest experiment in democracy the world has ever known: America.

Americans have only the dimmest notion of what their constitutional freedoms are - and what it took to get them...[and] the willingness to surrender what we're supposed to be fighting for is a recurring part of our history.

The world has never known the freedom and liberty it did until the United States some 230 years ago - and if that light is extinguished, then it's over for the resolute world as well. There's nowhere else. That has been a tenet of American foreign policy from the beginning, the recognition of liberty and freedom as essential to the human condition as created by God.

The Constitution established the United States of America as a Christian nation.

The very first words that we, the American nation, spoke were right here in Philadelphia. You know those words: "We the people." It wasn't, "We the conglomerates." It wasn't, "We the corporations." It was, "We the people."

The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?