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:We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic ...
 
:We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic ...
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:Where we have been the truest and most consistent in obeying its precepts, we have attained the greatest measure of contentment and prosperity.
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:Where we have been the truest and most consistent in obeying its precepts, we have attained the greatest measure of contentment and prosperity.<ref>Quoted in DeMar, ''The Untold Story'', p. 60 and Gabrial Sivan, ''The Bible and Civilization'' (New York: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., 1973), p. 178.</ref>
    
FDR became famous for delivering "fireside chats" over the new medium of radio, and on March 9, 1937 he declared:  
 
FDR became famous for delivering "fireside chats" over the new medium of radio, and on March 9, 1937 he declared:  
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As World War II broke out in Europe, FDR warned:
 
As World War II broke out in Europe, FDR warned:
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:Those forces hate democracy and Christianity as two phases of the same
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:Those forces hate democracy and Christianity as two phases of the same civilization.  
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civilization.  
      
The following year, on May 27, 1941, FDR stated in one of his radio addresses:  
 
The following year, on May 27, 1941, FDR stated in one of his radio addresses:  
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