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General in the American Revolution, chairman of the Constitutional Convention, a Founding Father, and the first president of the United States (recently voted the the number three president of all time by historians), George Washington is undoubtedly one of the most influential persons in American history.

Described as “First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen”, George Washington was an active Episcopalian and a firm believer of God and the Bible. His enemies even noticed something special about him. A famous Indian warrior is quoted to have said:

Washington was never born to be killed by a bullet. I had seventeen fair fires at him with my rifle and after all could not bring him to the ground.

Henry Muhlenberg, one of the founders of the Lutheran Church in America, noted concerning Washington:

I heard a fine example today, namely, that his excellency George Washington rode around among his army yesterday and admonished each and every one to fear God , to put away the wickedness that has set in and become so general, and to practice Christian virtues.

Washington is known for his famous quote:

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.

John Marshall, chief justice of the Supreme Court who served with Washington in the Revolutionary War, said of him:

Without making ostentatious professions of religion, he was a sincere believer in the Christian faith and a truly devout man.

On October 9th, 1789, Washington wrote to the Synod of the Dutch Reformed Churches in North America:

While just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government its surest support.

Washington said while addressing the general committee representing the United Baptist Churches of Virginia on May 10th, 1789:

If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed by the Convention, where I had the honor to preside, might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical society, certainly I would have never placed my signature on it.

In Washington’s farewell speech, he spoke these prophetic words:

And of a fatal tendency…to put in place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party; – often a small but artful and enterprising minority….they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion..

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