Letter to the editor: Words of wisdom to guide our votes

It is my belief that in the Nov. 8 election if we as Americans use the words of these famous people to aid us in our choice of who to vote for, we will be on the road to healing.

Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Ezra Stiles, president of Yale University, on March 9, 1780: “Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped.”

President Abraham Lincoln: During the Civil War, Lincoln was asked if God was on his side. He replied, “Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.”

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: In 1978, speaking at the commencement ceremony of Harvard University, Solzhenitsyn said: “How did the West decline from its triumphal march to its present sickness? … the proclaimed and enforced autonomy of man from any higher force above him … with man seen as the center of everything that exists.”

President Ronald Reagan, during a speech at an ecumenical prayer breakfast in Dallas on Aug. 23, 1984, noted, “If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.”

President Donald Trump, in his Feb. 4, 2020, State of the Union Address, said, “Whether we are Republican, Democrat or independent, surely we must all agree that every human life is a sacred gift from God! … We lift our voices in prayer, and we raise our sights to the glory of God!”

Joseph Krill

Murrysville