Virtual Tour

"A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do."

~ Woodrow Wilson

"No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States."

~ George Washington

"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and morality are indispensable supports...And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion...reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."

~ George Washington

"God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I refelct that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever."

~ Thomas Jefferson

"I believe the Bible is the best gift God has given to man...But for this Book we could not know right from wrong."

~ Abraham Lincoln

"...It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon, and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history: That those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord..."

~ Abraham Lincoln

"The highest glory of the American Revoltion was this; it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."

~ John Quincy Adams

"Last and not least, they cherished a great hope and inward zeal of laying good foundations, or at least making some ways toward it, for the propagation and advance of the gospel of the Kingdom of Christ in the remote parts of the world, even though they should be but stepping stones to others in the performance of so great a work."

~ William Bradford

"...This constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."

~ John Adams

"I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it, may none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof."

~ John Adams

From an 1892 Supreme Court decision in the case of Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States -

"...This is a Christian nation...we find everywhere a clear recognition of the same truth."

~ Josiah Brewer, Supreme Court Justice

"...We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

~ Abraham Lincoln

"Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known only to God."

~ Inscription on The Tomb of The Uknown Soldier

"To be prepared for War is the most effectual means of preserving peace...."

~ George Washington

"They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks."

~ Excerpt from Isaiah 2:4, Inscribed on the Confederate Memorial

"The Bible is the Book of Books."

~ Robert E. Lee

"Oh! The consolation of religion! I can willingly submit to anything if God strengthens me. I have joy in knowing that God withholds no good things from them that love and keep His commandments."

~ Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson

"The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about our rights and privileges as American citizens. The time is come - it now is - when we ought to hear about the duties and responsibilities of our citizenship. America's future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating God's government."

~ Rev. Peter Marshall, Pastor of New York Avenue Presbyterian Church from 1937-1949

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."

~ Edmund Burke

"The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training - sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death, he discloses those Divine attributes which his Maker gave when He created man in His own image. No physical courage and no brute instinct can take the place of Divine help which alone can sustain him."

~ General Douglas MacArthur, Commander of U.S. Forces in the Korean War

"O Christ! Whose voice the waters heard

And hushed their raging at Thy word,

Who walkedst on the foaming deep,

And calm amidst its rage didst sleep;

Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,

For those in peril on the sea!"

~ The Navy Hymn, 2nd Verse

-We will visit the Smithsonian buildings on the tour if time permits-

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

~ Genesis 1:1

-We will visit here on the tour if time permits-

"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."

~ Statement Attributed to Patrick Henry

-We will visit here on the tour if time permits-

"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."

~ Abraham Lincoln

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"I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have never cherished bitter or vindictive feelings, and have never seen the day when I did not pray for them."

~ General Robert E. Lee