America needs God more than God needs America. If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under.
Ronald Wilson Reagan, Aug. 23, 1984, Address at an ecumenical prayer breakfast in Dallas, TX
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The Real Purpose of the First Amendment
To those who cite the First Amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and every-day life, may I just say: The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people of this country from religious values; it was written to protect religious values from government tyranny.
Ronald Wilson Reagan, Mar. 15, 1982, Address to the Alabama State Legislature
The Envy of the World
It’s said that prayer can move mountains. Well, it’s certainly moved the hearts and minds of Americans in their times of trial and helped them to achieve a society that, for all its imperfections, is still the envy of the world and the last, best hope of mankind.
Ronald Wilson Reagan, Sep. 18, 1982, in a radio address to the nation
You Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat It Too
Do we really think that we can have it both ways, that God will protect us in a time of crisis even as we turn away from Him in our day-to-day life?
Ronald Wilson Reagan, Feb. 9, 1982, National Religious Broadcasters Annual Convention
All We Can Do Is Remember
It is, in a way, an odd thing to honor those who died in defense of our country in wars far away. The imagination plays a trick. We see these soldiers in our mind as old and wise. We see them as something like the Founding Fathers, grave and gray-haired. But most of them were boys when they died, they gave up two lives — the one they were living and the one they would have lived. When they died, they gave up their chance to be husbands and fathers and grandfathers. They gave up their chance to be revered old men. They gave up everything for their county, for us. All we can do is remember.
Ronald Wilson Reagan, Remarks at Veteran’s Day ceremony, Arlington National Cemetery Arlington, Virginia, November 11, 1985
Life Is Worship 