| American Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge - 1837 - 118 strani
...the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish thetn. A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity. Let it simply be...maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid... | |
| George Washington - 1837 - 620 strani
...the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connexions 'with private and public felicity. Let it simply be...maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason "and experience both forbid... | |
| Lyman Matthews - 1837 - 410 strani
...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... | |
| Mason Locke Weems - 1837 - 246 strani
...indispensable support. Volumes " could not trace all its connexions with private and " public happiness. Let it simply be asked, where " is the security for property, for reputation, for " life itself, if there be no fear of God on the minds " of those who give their oaths in courts of justice... | |
| George Washington - 1838 - 114 strani
...respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and publick felicity. Let it simply be asked, where is the security...maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education, on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid... | |
| Scott Hahn - 2005 - 242 strani
...than George Washington, the "father of our country." In his famous Farewell Address of 1796, he said: "Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for...maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid... | |
| Daniel L. Dreisbach, Mark David Hall, Jeffry H. Morrison - 2004 - 340 strani
...life, not the aim of politics. Virtue and morality are needed for public felicity because without them, "Let it simply be asked where is the security for...instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice?" 33 Washington venerates virtue and morality because they prompt citizens to act in a decent, truthful,... | |
| E.J. Dionne, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Kayla Meltzer Drogosz - 2004 - 260 strani
...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... | |
| Roger Milton Barrus - 2004 - 178 strani
...the pious man ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked where is the security of property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which... | |
| Anson R. Nash, Jr. - 2004 - 326 strani
...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... | |
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