Did you know ‘In God We Trust’ was inscribed above the rostrum in the House of Representatives? Maybe. But do you know when and why it was inscribed there?
Speaker Johnson knows. He brings it up. A joint decision in 1956 established it as the national motto. It was carved in 1962. Two relevant events happened that same year: the Engel v. Vitale decision took prayer out of schools in June and the world stood on the knife’s edge of nuclear war in the Cuban missile crisis in October.
In December, the House affirmed the conviction of that motto by carving it into the marble above the Speaker’s head.
Much has changed since those days. Including national opinions on faith in God.
But, Adams rightly warned us that (key part highlighted):
While our country remains untainted with the principles and manners which are now producing desolation in so many parts of the world; while she continues sincere, and incapable of insidious and impious policy, we shall have the strongest reason to rejoice in the local destination assigned us by Providence. But should the people of America once become capable of that deep simulation towards one another, and towards foreign nations, which assumes the language of justice and moderation while it is practising iniquity and extravagance, and displays [229] in the most captivating manner the charming pictures of candor, frankness, and sincerity, while it is rioting in rapine and insolence, this country will be the most miserable habitation in the world; because we have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams
Today, as we stand on a tipping point, where one party, in the name of ‘saving democracy’ has explicitly outlined a desire to rip down the current for of government and build some new utopian edifice in its place with NO checks and balances, remaking the court to suit their activist demands, denying even the basic claims of rights coming from God and not from Government.
The other choice, with Johnson, holds true the original vision. Where changes and reforms must be made, they must be made within the context of the existing system, as it has been for what will soon be 250 years since the Constitution and Bill of Rights have been adopted.
The choice could not be more clear, and the other side thinks they’ve sufficiently hijacked the Democrat party that they no longer need to hide their true intentions. The Democratic Socialists of America have a platform that explicitly calls for revolution and communism.
Neither of those are compatible with preserving the inheritance bequeathed to Americans by our fore-fathers.
THE BARBARIANS ARE INSIDE THE GATE!
We are fighting right now in Congress over whether we’re going to maintain our status as a constitutional republic OR trade that in, dismantle the foundations and GO DOWN THIS DARK ROAD OF DEATH TO COMMUNISM.
THAT is the question. pic.twitter.com/fX51Twhdse
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) July 14, 2026
As he says in the post: the barbarians are at the gate. They are exultant in their recent victories and the revolutionaries think they smell blood in the water.
THE BARBARIANS ARE INSIDE THE GATE!
We are fighting right now in Congress over whether we’re going to maintain our status as a constitutional republic OR trade that in, dismantle the foundations and GO DOWN THIS DARK ROAD OF DEATH TO COMMUNISM.
THAT is the question. pic.twitter.com/fX51Twhdse
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) July 14, 2026
Maybe that has something to do with why the GOP passed a resolution attaching the SAVE Act to the spending bill for National Security and State appropriations. While there’s no guarantee that it will work, at least the House is taking this issue more seriously than the Senate has been.
The question is… is the a generation willing to step up and stand up to defend the Constitution explicitly built for a ‘moral and religous’ people?
It is hardly a coincidence that the American Revolution came AFTER the Great Awakening.
And worth mentioning the dramatic difference in results between the American revolution and the proto-socialist one attempted in France.
