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As they are being read think about the warnings from these men in light of
what is now being seen in the present leadership along with the overwhelming
majority of society today! This is very sobering!!!
President George Washington
In President George Washington’s first inaugural address,
April 30
th
, 1789, he warned, “That the propitious smiles of
heaven can never be expected on a nation that
DISREGARDS the eternal values of ORDER and RIGHT
which heaven itself had ordained.
President Abraham Lincoln
In January, 1838, before being elected as President, Abraham
Lincoln warned, “If danger ever reaches us it must spring up
amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our
lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of
freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
General Douglas MacArthur
General Douglas MacArthur, speaking on December 12, 1951, said: “In this day of
gathering storm
, as the MORAL DETERIORATION of political power
spreads its growing infection,
IT IS ESSENTIAL that every spiritual force be
mobilized to defend and preserve
THE RELIGIOUS BASE
upon which THIS NATION was founded. For it is that BASE,
which has been the motivating impulse to OUR MORAL and
national growth.
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations
subject to
MORAL DECAY
have not passed into political and
economic DECLINE.
There has been either a SPIRITUAL REAWAKENING TO OVERCOME THE
MORAL LAPSE, OR
A PROGRESSIVE DETERIORATION LEADING TO
ULTIMATE DISASTER.”
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My emphasis
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