Franklin D. Roosevelt told the Teamsters Union Convention, September 11, 1940: "I stand, with my party ... on the platform ... adopted in Chicago ... It said: 'We will not participate in foreign wars, and we will not send our Army, naval or air forces to fight in foreign lands outside of the Americas, EXCEPT IN CASE OF ATTACK.'"
President Grover Clevelanddefended natural marriage of one man-one woman from attacks, stating in his First Annual Message, December 8, 1885: "In the Territory of Utah the law of the United States passed for suppression of polygamy ... The strength, the perpetuity, and the destiny of the nation rest upon our homes, established by the law of God ... The mothers of our land, who rule the nation as they mold the characters and guide the actions of their sons, live according to God's holy ordinances, and each, secure and happy in the exclusive love of the father of her children, sheds the warm light of true womanhood, unperverted and unpolluted, upon all within her pure and wholesome family circle. These are not the cheerless, crushed, and unwomanly mothers of polygamy."
U.S. Senate Chaplain Barry Black stated: "The first Senate, meeting in New York City on APRIL 25, 1789, elected the Right Reverend Samuel Provost, the Episcopal Bishop of New York, as its first Chaplain ... Since then, all sessions of the Senate have been opened with prayer, strongly affirming the Senate's faith in God as Sovereign Lord of our Nation."
General John J. Pershing wrote the Preface of the New Testament & Book of Psalms, August 10, 1917: "To the American Soldier aroused against a nation waging war in violation of all Christian principles. Our people are fighting in the cause of Liberty ... Hardships will be your lot, but trust in God will give you comfort; temptation will befall you, but the teachings of our Savior will give you strength. Let your valor as a soldier and your conduct as a man be an inspiration to your comrades and an honor to your country."
