 | Mary Eberstadt - 2007 - 305 Seiten
...their possibility, then the political benefits of religion cannot be held, and democracy itself decays. "Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure," Washington famously warned in his Farewell Address, "reason and experience both forbid us to expect... | |
 | Cameron C. Taylor - 2007 - 322 Seiten
...the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness. . . It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government."25 Washington had completed his divinely inspired work and would shortly be taken home... | |
 | Laura Ingraham - 2008 - 376 Seiten
...indispensable supports And 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 particular structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail... | |
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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... 
