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“Our founding fathers understood the absolute necessity for this nation to elect moral and upright statesmen to lead the people.”

John Fea   |  December 22, 2023

That was Jerry Falwell Sr. on January 8, 1999 in the midst of the Bill Clinton impeachment trial. Here is the quote in context:

“Our founding fathers understood the absolute necessity for this nation to elect moral and upright statesmen to lead the people.Listen to the words of James Madison, from the Federalist #57, and pray that God will again rise up men and women who will embrace their roles with dignity, faith, and truth: ‘The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust.”

Falwell Sr. died in 2007.

Filed Under: Way of Improvement Tagged With: Bill Clinton, character, Donald Trump, evangelical history, evangelicals and politics, Federalist Papers, founding fathers, Jerry Falwell Sr.