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A keen awareness of that duty has stretched all the way back from William Bradford's own Pilgrim proclamation in 1623, to the opening prayer of our first Continental Congress, to Lincoln's call for national Thanksgiving in the midst of the Civil War, to this very gathering today. We have always been, and still are, a nation of prayer, and thank God for that.
In times of suffering and in times of triumph, millions of Americans continue to turn to prayer and their faith in God. John Adams famously said that our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. It was obvious to the founders that our faith was the ground upon which America stands.
It was our very foundation as a people, and if this foundation were to crumble, so too would the very values that make us Americans. From our religious inheritance comes many of the virtues and institutions we most cherish as a people: our system of justice, our generosity to neighbors, our respect for conscience, and the moral discipline necessary for liberty itself."
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Freedom 250 @Freedom250 - Speaker Mike Johnson speaks to a packed National Mall at Freedom 250’s Rededicate 250 on Sunday, May 17, 2026. 🇺🇸🦅
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Freedom 250 @Freedom250 - Video: Gordon P. Robertson delivers remarks at Rededicate 250 on the National Mall:
"From the earliest days of this nation, there has been a question, not just of survival or prosperity, but of purpose. Why are we here? In 1670, Samuel Danforth, a Harvard graduate, a poet, an, an astronomer, and a pastor, gave an election sermon, a custom of that day. Danforth stood before the people and reminded them that their journey into the wilderness was not accidental.
It was an errand into the wilderness, a divine calling to be a people set apart, a light in a dark world. They were not building settlements. They were seeking the liberty to worship God in accordance with the dictates of their conscience. Well, more than a century later, as a fragile new nation struggled for independence, that same sense of purpose echoed again.
On May 17th, 1776, the Continental Congress called for a solemn day of fasting and prayer. They called upon the people to confess and bewail our manifold sins and transgressions, to seek repentance, and to find mercy through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ. A nation in crisis turned not first to strategy, but to God."
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Freedom 250 @Freedom250 - Video: The crowd joins @christomlin in “How Great Is Our God”
Hands lifted high, voices loud, and the energy on the National Mall was unreal