President Franklin D. Roosevelt stated October 6, 1935: "We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a Nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic ..."
"Neither let us be slandered from our DUTY by false accusations against us ... Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our DUTY."
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."
In 1823, Queen Kaʻahumanu and six high chiefs requested to be baptized as Christians. The Queen Kaʻahumanu's government then banned prostitution and drunkenness ... In 1824, Chiefess Kapiolani, the cousin of Kamehameha I, defied the volcano goddess Pele by saying a Christian prayer, climbing down into the lava crater and returning unharmed, then eating the forbidden Ōhelo berries.
