 | Thomas L. Krannawitter, Daniel C. Palm - History - 2005 - 270 pages
...Washington expressed the consensus of the Founders on the need for government support of religion: [L]et us with caution indulge the supposition that...morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. The second to the last clause of the Virginia Bill of Rights says: "no free government, or the blessings... | |
 | Peter Augustine Lawler, Robert Martin Schaefer - Political Science - 2005 - 444 pages
...obligations desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that...morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule... | |
 | Religion in the public schools - 2005 - 466 pages
...as found in Washington's Farewell Address : " Whatever may be conceded to the influence of retineJ education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles." This forced construction,... | |
 | Robert N. Bellah, Steven M. Tipton - Religion - 2006 - 572 pages
...religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that...morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. But there is every reason to believe that religion, particularly the idea of God, played a constitutive... | |
 | George Daniel - 2006 - 324 pages
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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... 
