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title: 'Samuel Miller on the Truest and Wisest Patriots'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2025-04-04
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2025-samuel-miller-on-the-truest-and-wisest-patriots
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# Samuel Miller on the Truest and Wisest Patriots

“If it be a solemn truth, that the prevalence of Christianity, has a natural and immediate tendency to promote political freedom, then, those are the truest and the wisest patriots, who study to increase its influence in society.” — [**Samuel Miller**](/authors/samuel-miller), *Christianity the Grand Source and Surest Basis for Political Liberty: A Sermon Preached in New*-*York, July* 4*th*, 1793. *Being the Anniversary of the Independence of America* (1793)