 | David Ramsay - 1832 - 278 pages
...peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail ia exclusion of religious principles. • •" It is...of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is 'essential that public opinion should be •enlightened.... | |
 | Noah Webster - United States - 1832 - 340 pages
...sincere friend to it can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric 7 22. Promote, then, as an object of primary importance,...knowledge. — In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.... | |
 | United States - 1833 - 64 pages
...experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. It is substantially true that virtue or morality is...of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - Presidents - 1833 - 408 pages
...experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. It is substantially true, that virtue or morality...of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - 1833 - 248 pages
...sincere friend to it can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric? •4 PROMOTE, then, as an object of primary importance,...knowledge. — In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.... | |
 | Peter Stephen Du Ponceau - Constitutional law - 1834 - 148 pages
...experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. It is substantially true, that virtue or morality...of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1837 - 622 pages
...experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. It is substantially true, that virtue or morality...of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Readers - 1835 - 328 pages
...felicity. Let it simply be asked, Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if t^e sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which...of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - United States - 1836 - 304 pages
...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...of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - United States - 1836 - 304 pages
...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...of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.... | |
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It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts... 
