Quotes for today’s election

If America is to survive, we must elect… individuals who will seek Divine guidance in the affairs of state. — Billy Graham, evangelist

God cannot sustain this free and blessed country… unless the Church will take right ground. — Charles Finney, leader in America’s Second Great Awakening

The people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. — President James A. Garfield

God commands you to choose for rulers, just men who will rule in the fear of God. The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty; if the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted. — Noah Webster, the “Father of American Scholarship and Education”

Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual — or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country. — Thomas Jefferson