George Washington.
“Above all, the pure light of revelation has had an influence on mankind, and increased the blessings of society. It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.”
Thomas Jefferson.
“I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.”
John Adams.
“The Bible contains more philosophy than all the libraries that I have ever seen; and such parts as I cannot reconcile with my little philosophy, I postpone for future investigation.”
John Quincy Adams.
“The first and almost the only book deserving of universal attention is the Bible. I speak as a man of the world.”
Zachary Taylor.
“It was for the love of the truths of this great and good Book that our fathers abandoned their native shores for the wilderness.”
Abraham Lincoln.
“I am profitably engaged in reading the Bible. Take all of this Book that you can by reason and the balance by faith, and you will live and die a better man. It is the best Book which God has given to man.”
W. E. Gladstone.
“I have known ninety-five of the world’s great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.”
Ulysses S. Grant.
“To the influence of this Book we are indebted for the progress made in civilization, and to this we must look as our guide in the future.”
Queen Victoria.
“England has become great and happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ . . . This is the secret of England’s greatness.”
Theodore Roosevelt.
“Almost every man who has by his lifework added to the sum of human achievement . . . has based his life-work largely upon the teachings of the Bible.”
Woodrow Wilson.
“A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this” (a knowledge of the Bible) .
Herbert Hoover.
“There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom. Whether it be of law, business, morals, etc…. He who seeks for guidance … may look inside its covers and find illumination.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
“The young must be taught, and they must be taught truly if spring waters of democracy are to be kept untainted. The influence of the Scriptures in the early days of the Republic is plainly revealed in the writing and thinking of the men who made the nation possible…. They found in the Scriptures that which shaped their course and determined their action.”
John Bacon.
“What I was as an artist seemed to me of some importance while I lived; what I really was, as a believer in Christ Jesus, is the only thing of importance to me now.”
Napoleon Bonaparte.
“The Bible is more than a book; it is a living being with an action, a power which invades everything that opposes its extension.”
Mark Twain.
“It is hard to make a choice of the most beautiful passage in a Book which is gemmed with beautiful passages as the Bible.”
Alexander Hamilton.
“I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I were sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor.”
“We the undersigned, Students of the Natural Sciences, desire to express our sincere regret that researchers into scientific truth are perverted by some in our own times into occasion for casting doubt upon the truth and authenticity of the Holy Scriptures. We conceive that it is impossible for the Word of God written in the book of nature, and God’s Word written in Holy Scripture, to contradict one another.” Signed by eight hundred scientists of Great Britain, recorded in the Bodleian Library, which is located in Oxford, England.
Thomas Huxley.
“The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and the oppressed. The human race is not in a position to dispense with it.”
Patrick Henry.
“The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed.”
Horace Greeley.
“It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the ground-work of human freedom.”
Robert E. Lee.
“In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.”
Lord Tennyson.
“Bible reading is an education in itself.”
Immanuel Kant.
“The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced: Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against society.”
Charles Dickens.
“The New Testament is the very best Book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.”
Sir Isaac Newton.
“There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.”