| Dwight D. Allman, Michael D. Beaty - 2002 - 200 Seiten
...religion and morality as "indispensable supports" to political prosperity — he concludes by observing, "Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined...structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle"?20 For Washington, then,... | |
| Michael Waldman - 363 Seiten
...is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation...morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. "It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world... | |
| Forrest Church - 2003 - 196 Seiten
...is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation...morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. Washington, who mentions Christ not once in the twenty volumes of his collected papers, alludes here... | |
| William J. Federer - 2003 - 292 Seiten
...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...religious principle. Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less... | |
| Nasser Behnegar - 2005 - 235 Seiten
...shown the soundness of George Washington's warning against the abolition of or neglect of religion: "[L]et us with caution indulge the supposition that...minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle" (quoted... | |
| Alan Mittleman - 2003 - 350 Seiten
...habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. What ever may be conceded to the influence of refined education...structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."1 185 It was not difficult... | |
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