 | Mason Locke Weems - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 246
...religious obligations DESERT the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. What ever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason... | |
 | Lyman Matthews - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 410
...indispensable supports. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion; — reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail, in exclusion... | |
 | George Washington - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 114
...religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that...morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. DOCUMENTS CONNECTED WITH It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of... | |
 | Peter Wallace Gallaudet - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 36
...and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let us with caution indulge the supposition, that...can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." Some of the advantages that would result to society at large, and to individuals, from a system of... | |
 | 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 460
...George Lockington has well said to his countrymen, " Let us with caution indulge the supposition, thnt morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever...minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles." Cheddington.... | |
 | Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller, Jeffrey Paul - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...Regarding government's view of morality, Washington's Farewell Address in 1796 stated the consensus: "It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government." For this reason, speech or conduct that tends to injure the public morals was subject to 66 Constitution... | |
 | Daniel L. Dreisbach, Mark David Hall, Jeffry H. Morrison - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 340
...habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and morality are indispensable supports. . . . And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion." 69 (Historian Fred Hood has even written that an "amazing similarity" of language between Hamilton's... | |
 | E.J. Dionne, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Kayla Meltzer Drogosz - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 260
...does not depend on religion, Washington argues, this is not the case for the morality of the nation: "And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion." In the end, while it is often thought that the separation of church and state marks the divorce of... | |
 | Anson R. Nash, Jr. - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 326
...Good, better, best, Never let it rest, Until the good gets better And the better gets best. 169.1 1. And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion...reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion... | |
 | William F. Jr Cox - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 558
...this time: Our conclusions, then, are these, namely: First, that Washington was right when he said: 'Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.' Second; that the State cannot teach morality without teaching religion as its foundation. Third; that... | |
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Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition... 
