I must acknowledge God. It says so in the Constitution of Alabama. It says so in the First Amendment of the Constitution.

Now we have blacks and whites fighting, reds and yellows fighting, Democrats and Republicans fighting, men and women fighting.

All the Ten Commandments and prayer is an acknowledgement of the Almighty God. We will not back down from that.

False religions like Islam who teach that you must worship this way, are completely opposite with what our First Amendment stands for.

To restore morality we must first recognize the source from which all morality springs. From our earliest history in 1776 when we were declared to be the United States of America, our forefathers recognized the sovereignty of God.

But in the long term, I think it is improper to limit your future.

The monument serves to remind the appellate courts and judges of the circuit and district courts of this state and members of the bar who appear before them as well as the people of Alabama who visit the Alabama Judicial Building of the truth stated in the preamble of the Alabama Constitution, that in order to establish justice we must invoke the favor and guidance of Almighty God.