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'Tis done. We have become a nation.
Without Virtue there can be no liberty
A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
A simple democracy is the devil's own government.
Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
Beer is a wholesome liquor.....it abounds with nourishment
We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
I anticipate the Day when to command Respect in the remotest Regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American.
Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.
If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.
Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.
Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.
By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.
Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and... in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy.
The gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation in life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations!
Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.
Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.
As the War Office of the United States was established in a time of peace, it is equally reasonable that a Peace Office should be established in a time of War.
Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them.
By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published.
It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.
[W]here there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.
The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible.
A belief in God's universal love to all his creatures, and that he will finally restore all of them that are miserable to happiness, is a polar truth. . . It establishes the equality of [humanity]. . .
I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much the work of a Divine Providence as any of the miracles recorded in the Old and New Testament.
The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.
The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.
Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught to love his family, but let him be taught at the same time that he must forsake and even forget them when the welfare of his country requires it.
Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money.
Upon my return from the army to Baltimore in the winter of 1777, I sat next to John Adams in Congress, and upon my whispering to him and asking him if he thought we should succeed in our struggle with Great Britain, he answered me, "Yes-if we fear God and repent of our sins."
Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments, that I had rather see the opinions of Confucius or Mahomed inculcated upon our youth than see them grow up wholly devoid of a system of religious principles.
In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals can exist without it," but by asserting that without religion morals are the effects of causes as purely physical as pleasant breezes and fruitful seasons.
The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in our schools in preference to all other books because it contains the greatest portion of that kind of knowledge which is calculated to produce private and public happiness.
There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue and knowledge through every part of the state by means of proper places and modes of education and this can be done effectively only by the aid of the legislature.