 | Joseph Story - 1840 - 394 sider
...happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and Citizens. The mere Politician, equally with 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 asked, Where is the security for property,... | |
 | 1840 - 480 sider
...happiness— these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with 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 asked, where is the security for property,... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - 1840 - 256 sider
...A volume could no»t trace all their connexions with private and public felicity. Let it be simply asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligations desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in the courts of justice ?... | |
 | Harmon Kingsbury - 1840 - 404 sider
...religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? Let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion.—Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure,... | |
 | Ernest L. Fortin - 2002 - 352 sider
...the duties of Men and citizens. The mere Politician, equally with the pious man ought to respect and cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections...instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice. And lei us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever... | |
 | K. Alan Snyder - 2002 - 302 sider
...Illustrations included a quote from Washington's "Farewell Address," in which the first president declared, "Let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion." A Christian, according to the strongest of the definitions, is a "real disciple of Christ; one who... | |
 | Alan Mittleman, Robert Licht, Jonathan D. Sarna - 2002 - 396 sider
...are indispensable supports; . . . these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens." He added, "let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion." Today many do indulge that supposition. They believe that morality, including and especially the moral... | |
 | Clayton Gingerich - 2002 - 234 sider
...He loved it and Bible reading was part of his daily routine. Then, in his parting address he said, "Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to hope that national morality can prevail in the exclusion of... | |
 | Gleaves Whitney - 2003 - 496 sider
...administered where oaths are backed by morality and where morality is backed by religion. Washington warned, "let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. . . . [R]eason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion... | |
 | Joseph P. Hester - 2003 - 296 sider
...and religion of the same Founders who wrote religious liberty into the First Amendment. Washington asked, "Where is the security for property, for reputation,...instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice?" Finally, says Teti, displaying the Ten Commandments in schools does nothing in itself, but it can stimulate... | |
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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 the courts of justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition,... 
