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title: 'Witherspoon on Who is the Best Friend to American Liberty'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2023-11-08
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2023-witherspoon-on-who-is-the-best-friend-to-american-liberty
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# Witherspoon on Who is the Best Friend to American Liberty

“He is the best friend to American liberty, who is most sincere and active in promoting true and undefiled religion, and who sets himself with the greatest firmness to bear down profanity and immorality of every kind.” — [**John Witherspoon**](/authors/john-witherspoon), *The Dominion of Providence Over the Passions of Men: A Sermon, Preached at Princeton, on the* 17*th of May*, 1776. *Being the General Fast Appointed by the Congress Through the United Colonies* (1777), p. 37