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THE GREAT BOOK, GREAT MEN

    Andrew Jackson:   That book, sir, is the rock on which our republic rests. So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members of the society. I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.    Robert. E. Lee: in all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.    Lord Tennyson: Bible reading is an education in itself.    Horace Greeley: It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the ground-work of human freedom.    John Quincy Adams: So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members of the society. I have for many years made it a