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Wisdom Quotes from Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, founding father, John Jay

Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.

John Jay, 1816

The Bible will also inform them that our gracious Creator has provided for us a Redeemer, in whom all the nations of the earth shall be blessed; that this Redeemer has made atonement "for the sins of the whole world," and thereby reconciling the Divine justice with the Divine mercy has opened a way for our redemption and salvation; and that these inestimable benefits are of the free gift and grace of God, not of our deserving, nor in our power to deserve.

Chief Justice, John Jay

In forming and settling my belief relative to the doctrines of Christianity, I adopted no articles from creeds but such only as, on careful examination, I found to be confirmed by the Bible.

Quote from Chief Justice, John Jay

Earnest hope that the peace, happiness, and prosperity enjoyed by our beloved country may induce those who direct her national counsels to recommend a general and public return of praise to Him from whose goodness these blessings descend.

Chief Justice, John Jay

They have the Book.

Quote from Chief Justice, John Jay, when asked if he had any final words for his children

I recommend a general and public return of praise and thanksgiving to Him from whose goodness these blessings descend. The most effectual means of securing the continuance of our civil and religious liberties is always to remember with reverence and gratitude the source from which they flow.

John Jay, Letter to the Committee of the Corporation of the City of New York, June 29, 1826

As to the position that 'the people always mean well,' that they always mean to say and do what they believe to be right and just - it may be popular, but it can not be true.

The word people applies to all the individual inhabitants of a country. . . . That portion of them who individually mean well never was, nor until the millennium will be, considerable.

Pure democracy, like pure rum, easil...y produces intoxication and with it a thousand pranks and fooleries.

I do not expect mankind will, before the millennium, be what they ought to be and therefore, in my opinion, every political theory which does not regard them as being what they are, will prove abortive.

Yet I wish to see all unjust and unnecessary discriminations everywhere abolished, and that the time may come when all our inhabitants of every color and discrimination shall be free and equal partakers of our political liberties.”

John Jay, Letter to Judge Peters (March 14, 1815)

No human society has ever been able to maintain both order and freedom, both cohesiveness and liberty apart from the moral precepts of  the Christian Religion applied and accepted by all the classes. Should our republic ere forget this fundamental precept of governance, men are cfertain to shed their responhsibilities for licentiousness and this great experiment will then surely be doomed.

John Jay, first Cheif Justice of the Supreme Court

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