 | Douglas T. Miller, Marion Nowak - History - 1977 - 484 pages
...simple one; it was just faith. "Our government makes no sense," he declared during the 1952 campaign, "unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don't care what it is." On another occasion he told the people, though "I am the most intensely religious man I know, that... | |
 | Will Herberg - History - 1983 - 326 pages
...such, religion-in-general. "Our government makes no sense," President Eisenhower recently declared, "unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith— and I don't care what it is" (emphasis added).37 In saying this, the President was saying something that almost any American could... | |
 | Sidney Earl Mead - Political Science - 1985 - 176 pages
...does not mean that I adhere to any sect." In 1952, shortly after his election, the president said, "Our government makes no sense unless it is founded...felt religious faith, and I don't care what it is." In 1955 he declared that "recognition of the Supreme Being is the first, the most basic expression... | |
 | Robert Moats Miller - Biography & Autobiography - 1985 - 637 pages
...of Dwight Eisenhower when the president said, "Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply felt religious faith — and I don't care what it is." This in essence was the nature of the criticism of mainly Roman Catholic, Anglican, and conservative... | |
 | Paula Marantz Cohen - Performing Arts - 2001 - 1286 pages
...President Ei sen bower's revealing statement: 'Our government makes no sense unless it is Founded on a deeply felt religious faith - and I don't care what it is.' Sectarian passions had faded sufficiently by 1960 to allow a Catholic to be elected president, and... | |
 | Marshall William Fishwick, Ray Broadus Browne - Social Science - 1987 - 212 pages
...vague religion of "Americanism" to a definite evangelical faith. In December 1952 the General said: "Our government makes no sense unless it is founded...religious faith — and I don't care what it is." A month later he joined the National Presbyterian Church. His views became more clearly evangelical... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Judges - 1989 - 1268 pages
...taken as crystalline expressions of the mid- 15150s version of the civil religion, such as this one: "Our government makes no sense unless it is founded...religious faith— and I don't care what it is." The political relevance of this faith, deeply felt and at the same time seemingly devoid of content, was... | |
 | William L. O'Neill - United States - 1986 - 340 pages
...life, rather than in any particular creed. Eisenhower truly spoke for the nation when he said that "our government makes no sense unless it is founded...religious faith — and I don't care what it is." So did the Republican National Committee in 1954 when it characterized Eisenhower as "not only the... | |
 | R. Stephen Warner - Religion - 1988 - 376 pages
...Eisenhower may have best expressed the indiscriminately proreligious attitude of the time when he said, "Our government makes no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith—and I don't care what it is." 2 But while the boom emboldened church officers to make expensive... | |
 | Robert N. Bellah - Religion - 1991 - 329 pages
...little about it that it has lost any content whatever? Isn't Dwight Eisenhower reported to have said "Our government makes no sense unless it is founded...felt religious faith— and I don't care what it is," 2 and isn't that a complete negation of any real religion? These questions are worth pursuing because... | |
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Our government makes no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith - and I don't care what it is," and isn't that a complete negation of any real religion? 
