|  The Bible was the foundation and blueprint for our Constitution, Declaration of Independence, our educational system, and our entire history until the last 20 to 30 years. | - "The Bible is a book worth more than all the other books that were ever printed."
Patrick Henry - "It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom."
Horace Greely - "I have always said, and will always say, that studious perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens."
Thomas Jefferson |
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While President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson was elected the first president of the Washington, D.C. public school board, which used the Bible as a reading text in the classroom.
There was a secular study done by the American Political Science Review on thepolitical documents of the Founding era, which was 1760-1805.
This study found that 94% of the documents that went into the Founding ERA were based on the Bible, and of that 34% of the contents were direct quotations from the Bible.
88% of students nationwide are educated in the public school system.
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Founding Fathers 
