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"The same inscription, "Proclaim Liberty
throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof" was put on the Liberty bell. This saying is from the Bible
(Leviticus 25:10). The crack in the bell affected the sound of the bell. The bell was last rung on February 23, 1846 for George
Washington’s birthday."
Welcome
to the Conservatives Corner... A New site Dedicated to Pointing The American People back to the Basic Fundamental Principles
on which this Nation was Founded!
It
is time for the American people to stand up for the Rights and Liberties afforded us in the Constitution of the United States
of America.
In
the coming days this site should be up and running to help all Americans take a close look at these basic principles
that this nation was founded upon.
You
are invited to check back frequently to watch this site grow: and hopefully make a difference in the lives of everday citizens.
It
is our sincere hope that we can go back and see the exact reasons the Founding Fathers set forth certain Basic Principles.
Please
read the words of Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry,Daniel Webster, Thomas Jefferson And Others written below!
Please read the Personal Prayer of Geroge Washington written below.
A Portion of George Washington's personal prayers:
“O Most Glorious God, in Jesus Christ, my merciful
and loving Father; I acknowledge and confess my guilt in the weak and imperfect performance of the duties of this day. I have
called on Thee for pardon and forgiveness of my sins, but so coldly and carelessly that my prayers are become my sin, and
they stand in need of pardon.”
“ I have sinned against heaven and before Thee in thought, word, and deed. I
have contemned Thy majesty and holy laws. I have likewise sinned by omitting what I ought to have done and committing what
I ought not. I have rebelled against the light, despising Thy mercies and judgment, and broken my vows and promise. I have
neglected the better things. My iniquities are multiplied and my sins are very great. I confess them, O Lord, with shame and
sorrow, detestation and loathing and desire to be vile in my own eyes as I have rendered myself vile in Thine. I humbly beseech
Thee to be merciful to me in the free pardon of my sins for the sake of Thy dear Son and only Savior Jesus Christ who came
to call not the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Thou gavest Thy Son to die for me.”
"Make me to know what is acceptable in
Thy sight, and therein to delight, open the eyes of my understanding, and help me thoroughly to examine myself concerning
my knowledge, faith, and repentance, increase my faith, and direct me to the true object, Jesus
Christ the Way, the Truth, and the Life, ..."
[from a 24 page authentic handwritten manuscript book dated April 21-23, 1752]
Patrick Henry
March 23, 1775
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to
be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for
me, give me liberty or give me death!"
"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often
that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here."
Thomas Jefferson
"God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of
a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these
liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath?
Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice
cannot sleep forever."
Thomas Jefferson
"Can the liberties
of a nation be sure when we remove their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people, that these liberties are
a gift from God?
Daniel Webster
"There is no nation on earth powerful
enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention
of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I must confess that I do apprehend
some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants and fail properly to scrutinize
their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men and become the instruments of their own undoing."
"Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to
the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6000 years, may not happen again.
Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world."
Benjamin Franklin:
| Portrait of Ben Franklin
“ God governs in the affairs of man. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable
that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured in the Sacred Writings that except the Lord build the house,
they labor in vain that build it. I firmly believe this. I also believe that, without His concurring aid, we shall succeed
in this political building no better than the builders of Babel” –Constitutional Convention of 1787 | original
manuscript of this speech
In Benjamin Franklin's 1749 plan of education for public schools
in Pennsylvania, he insisted that schools teach "the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern."
Thomas Paine:
“ It has been the error of the schools
to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only; whereas they
should be taught theologically, or with reference to the Being who is the author of them: for all the principles of science
are of divine origin. Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles: he can only discover them; and he ought to look
through the discovery to the Author.”
“ The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching
natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that of generating in the pupils a species of atheism. Instead of looking
through the works of creation to the Creator himself, they stop short, and employ the knowledge they acquire to create doubts
of his existence. They labour with studied ingenuity to ascribe every thing they behold to innate properties of matter, and
jump over all the rest by saying, that matter is eternal.
” From “The Existence of God--1810”
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