Daniel Webster (1782–1852) was a leading American statesman during the nation’s Antebellum Period. In 1843, he spoke of the Founding Fathers’ regard for the Bible in an address celebrating the completion of the Bunker Hill Monument:
The Bible came with them. And it is not to be doubted, that to free and universal reading of the Bible, in that age, men were much indebted for right views of civil liberty.
The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of special revelation from God; but it is also a book which teaches man his own individual responsibility, his own dignity, and his equality with his fellowman.
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