Roger Sherman famous quotes

07-14-2025

Sad will be the day when the American people forget their traditions and their history, and so longer remember that the country they love, the institutions they cherish, and the freedom they hope to preserve, were born from the throes of armed resistance to tyranny, and nursed in the rugged arms of fearless men.
-- Roger Sherman

#Love #Sad #Country
The question is, not what rights naturally belong to man, but how they may be most equally and effectually guarded in society.
-- Roger Sherman

#Men #Rights #May
Government is instituted for those who live under it.
-- Roger Sherman

#Government
If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be liable to be deceived by flatterers and pretenders to patriotism.
-- Roger Sherman

#President #Would Be #Select
Congress has no power to make any religious establishments.
-- Roger Sherman

#Religious #Father #Congress
I believe that there is one only living and true God, existing in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. . . . that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are a revelation from God. . . . that God did send His own Son to become man, die in the room and stead of sinners, and thus to lay a foundation for the offer of pardon and salvation to all mankind so as all may be saved who are willing to accept the Gospel offer.
-- Roger Sherman

#Father #Believe #Son
You are further to declare that we hold sacred the rights of conscience, and may promise to the whole people, solemnly in our name, the free and undisturbed exercise of their religion. And...that all civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.
-- Roger Sherman

#Christian #Exercise #Rights
The Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war.
-- Roger Sherman

#War #President #Able
The Government made by a number of Sovereign States.
-- Roger Sherman

#Government #Numbers #Sovereign
I believe that the souls of believers are at their death made perfectly holy, and immediately taken to glory: that at the end of this world there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a final judgement of all mankind, when the righteous shall be publicly acquitted by Christ the Judge and admitted to everlasting life and glory, and the wicked be sentenced to everlasting punishment.
-- Roger Sherman

#Believe #Taken #Punishment
True Christians are assured that no temptation (or trial) shall happen to them but what they shall be enabled to bear; and that the grace of Christ shall be sufficient for them.
-- Roger Sherman

#Christian #Temptation #Grace
I believe a visible church to be a congregation of those who make a credible profession of their faith in Christ, and obedience to him, joined by the bond of the covenant.
-- Roger Sherman

#Believe #Church #Covenant

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