George Washington: “It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.”

John Adams: “The Bible is the best book in the world. It contains more than all the libraries I have seen.”

John Quincy Adams: “I say to you, Search the Scriptures! The Bible is the book of all others, to be read at all ages, and in all conditions of human life; not to be read once or twice or thrice through, and then laid aside, but to be read in small portions of one or two chapters every day, and never to be intermitted, unless by some overruling necessity.”

Andrew Jackson: “That book, Sir, is the Rock upon which our republic rests.”

Rutherford B. Hayes: “The best religion the world has ever known is the religion of the Bible. It builds up all that is good.”

William McKinley: “The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.”

Woodrow Wilson: “There are a good many problems before the American people today, and before me as President, but I expect to find the solution of those problems just in the proportion that I am faithful in the study of the Word of God.”

Herbert Hoover: “The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American life.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt: “We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation without reckoning the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic.”

Ronald Reagan: “Within the covers of the Bible are all the answers for all the problems men face. The Bible can touch hearts, order minds, and refresh souls.”

As we draw closer to the elections, I wonder where some of our candidates for office stand on the Bible and whether they have the courage to state their views publicly, as these have done in the past. It makes you wonder, doesn’t it?

“Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people” (Proverbs 14:34).