"General Jackson, on his death-bed, said, pointing to the Bible: "That book, sir, is the rock on which our Republic rests—the bulwark of our free institutions.""
— Andrew Jackson

January 1, 1970

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"Constitution—Its Amendment" in The Reformed Presbyterian and Covenanter, Volume 2 No. 11 (November 1864), p. 321. This is the earliest occurrence yet located of this anecdote. Other early citations (with various wordings) include B. F. Morris, Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States (Philadelphia, 1864), p. 191; Rev. Dr. Luther T. Townsend of Boston University, in an address at the "Anniversary of the Freedman's Aid Society" as recorded in the Third Annual Re