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George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic
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"Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon."

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John Ruskin Art Critic, Writer
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"The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer of God by honest searching."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands."

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Frances Harper Author, Activist
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"Amid ancient lore the Word of God stands unique and pre-eminent. Wonderful in its construction, admirable in its adaptation, it contains truths that a child may comprehend, and mysteries into which angels desire to look."

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John Brown Abolitionist, Military Leader
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"So far as I ever observed God's dealings with my soul, the flights of preachers sometimes entertained me, but it was Scripture expressions which did penetrate my heart, and in a way peculiar to themselves."

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Charlie Campbell Musician
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"Today there survives more than 25,0000 partial and complete, ancient handwritten manuscript copies of the New Testament. These hand written manuscripts have allowed scholars and textual critics to go back and verify that the Bible we have in our possession today is the same Bible that the early church possessed 2,000 years ago."

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Samuel Adams Politician
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"We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come."

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Theodore Roosevelt Politician, Author
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"It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men's lives be based on the principles of the Bible. No man, educated or uneducated, can afford to be ignorant of the Bible."

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John Adams Founding Father, Politician
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"The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity."

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Napoleon Bonaparte Military Leader, Emperor
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"The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold! It is upon this table: This book, surpassing all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with some pleasure."

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