Patriot Echoes – Honoring 250 years of patriot ideals.
  • March 6, 1809, 217 years ago — Death of Thomas Heyward Jr..
  • March 6, 1724, 302 years ago — Birth of Henry Laurens, President of the Continental Congress.
  • March 7, 1707, 319 years ago — Birth of Stephen Hopkins, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
  • March 7, 1699, 327 years ago — Birth of Susanna Boylston Adams, mother of John Adams.
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  • “I think the system of morals and his religion, as he left them to us, is the best the world ever saw. ”
    Benjamin Franklin , Letter to Ezra Stiles · View
  • “The Bible is the best of all books... and should be read and practiced in every school in the land. ”
    John Jay , Letter to Peter Augustus Jay · View
  • “The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible. ”
    Benjamin Rush , Essay on Education · View
  • “Suppose a nation in some distant Region should take the Bible for their only law Book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! ”
    John Adams , Diary Entry · View
  • “The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. ”
    John Jay , Letter to Peter Augustus Jay · View
  • “The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world. ”
    Benjamin Rush , Essay on Education · View
  • “By conveying the Bible to people thus deprived, we certainly do them a most interesting act of kindness. Were it not for this Book, we could not know right from wrong. All the things desirable to man are contained in it. ”
    John Jay , Letter to the Committee of the American Bible Society · View
  • “It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. ”
    George Washington , Attributed · View
  • “Suppose a nation in some distant Region should take the Bible for their only law Book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! ... What a Eutopia, what a Paradise would this region be. ”
    John Adams , Diary and Autobiography of John Adams · View
  • “A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every districtall studied and appreciatedare the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty. ”
    Benjamin Franklin , Letter to Rev. Samuel Cooper · View
  • “The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world. ”
    Benjamin Rush , Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical · View