Eye-opening statements of faith & conviction from each of America's 43 Chief Executives, 1789-2006. From Washington through Lincoln, Kennedy up to the present. Beautifully arranged in chronological order, excerpts are fully footnoted to source documents, taken from Inaugural Addresses, Addresses to Congress, State of the Union Addresses, Executive Proclamations, Public Laws, Presidential Speeches & correspondence. A great gift idea for students, speakers, writers or the aspiring historian! Quotations range from Human Rights, Foreign Affairs, Indian Affairs, Military, National Crisis, National Holidays, to Religion, including acknowledgements by every U.S. President of a Supreme Being in their addresses upon assuming office! Never before has there been such a concise, easy-to-read compilation of quotations from every United States President! A refreshing study, this timeless 500 page book is destined to be a classic! Excerpted from A Treasury of Presidential Quotations by William J. Federer: "I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old, from their native land and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessities and comforts of life." - Thomas Jefferson, 2nd Inaugural Address, Monday, March 4, 1805. "We have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us...Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become...too proud to pray to the God that made us!" - Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation of a National Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer, Monday, March 30, 1863. "A God-fearing nation, like ours, owes it to its inborn and sincere sense of moral duty to testify its devout gratitude to the All-Giver for the countless benefits its has enjoyed." - William Howard Taft, Proclamation of a National Day of Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 7, 1912. "Haym Solomon, Polish Jew financier of the Revolution....personally advanced large sums to...patriot leaders who testified that without his aid they could not have carried on in the cause....'Hebraic mortar cemented the foundations of American democracy,'" - (John) Calvin Coolidge, Laying the Cornerstone of the Jewish Community Center, Washington, D.C., Sunday, May 3, 1925. "The same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe - The belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Friday, January 20, 1961. (Paperback, 500 pages, illustrations)