Reaffirming Our Faith: One Nation Under God

I Pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

President Eisenhower gave his support to the Congressional Act, which added the phrase “Under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance, saying:

In this way we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious faith in America’s heritage and future; in this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country’s most powerful resource in peace and war.

The President then stood on the steps of the Capitol Building and recited the Pledge of Allegiance for the first time with the phrase “one nation under God.”

President Dwight David Eisenhower was the 34th President of the united States, his term lasting form 1953 until 1961. Before being elected president, he was a five star General in the United States Army during World War II.

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America’s God and Country: Encyclopedia of Quotations

by William J. Federer