Political Quotes

“I hear many people say that our country has never been more at odds and our rhetoric more divisive than now. I would strongly disagree. I would remind us of a time in 1861 when our Nation stood at the precipice of the Civil War and the oratory spilled over into bloodshed. During that dark moment in our Nation's history, the Secretary of the Treasury ordered the Director of the U.S. Mint to create a new inscription for the national coins. He wrote: ``No nation can be strong except in the strength of God, or safe except in His defense. The trust of our people in God should be declared on our national coins.'' The Director of the Mint responded back with a variation of the phrase that he pulled out from the Star Spangled Banner, the statement, so our motto is ``In God is our trust,'' since it was a familiar hymn and indicative of the American people. It was later finalized as, ``In God We Trust'' and was first put on a 2-cent coin in 1864, near the end of the Civil War. This was not some isolated moment in American history; this is a consistent theme.…”