The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights
Fountain Lake is one of the headwaters to the Chain O' lakes. Emmons Creek starts there below the dam and meanders about 9 miles East to where it empties into Long Lake on The Chain O' Lakes.We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.
Because we hold it for 'a fundamental and undeniable truth', that religion or 'the duty which we owe to our Creator' and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
No power over the freedom of religion [is] delegated to the United States by the Constitution.
We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments.
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.
The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.