 | Daniel Webster - 1860 - 542 pages
...who began, almost on the moment of their arrival, the work of building up this institution. t Lastly, our ancestors established their system of government...other and to society, enforced and performed. Whatever mokes men good Christians, makes them good citizens. Our fathers came here to enjoy their religion... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Morris - United States - 1864 - 842 pages
...habits, they believed, cannot be safely trusted on any other foundation than religious principles, nor any government be secure which is not supported...to society, enforced and performed. Whatever makes good men makes good citizens. Our fathers came here to enjoy their religion free and unmolested; and,... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1867 - 1256 pages
...passions forge their fetters." And our own peerless Webster hath said : " Moral habits cannot be safely trusted on any other foundation than religious principle,...secure •which is not supported by moral habits. Whatever makes men good ChrL-tians makes them good citizens.". These immutable principles announced... | |
 | John D. Minor, Ohio. Superior Court (Cincinnati) - Religion in the public schools - 1870 - 448 pages
...habits, they believe, can not safely be trusted to any other foundation than religious principles, nor any government be secure which is not supported...society, enforced and performed. Whatever makes men good citizens makes them good Christians." I refer also to the case of Lindenmuller v. The People, 33 Barbour's... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1870 - 144 pages
...Moral habits they believe cannot safely be trusted to any other foundation than religious principles, nor any government be secure which is not supported by moral habits." Count Bismarck, in a speech in the Prussian Chambers, used these emphatic words : " Without a religious... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1870 - 144 pages
...Moral habits they believe cannot safely be trusted to any other foundation than religious principles, nor any government be secure which is not supported by moral habits." Count Bismarck, in a speech in the Prussian Chambers, used these emphatic words : "Without a religious... | |
 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - Education - 1871 - 664 pages
...sanctions, to make them effective. One of our greatest statesmen has said, " Moral habits cannot be safely trusted on any other foundation than religious principle,...be secure which is not supported by moral habits." If this is true in some measure of all governments it must be preeminently true of a government which... | |
 | rev Andrew Cameron - 1873 - 760 pages
...portion of the Bible." One of America's greatest statesmen has said: "Moral habits cannot be safely trusted on any other foundation than religious principle,...be secure which is not supported by moral habits." In carrying out their plans of national education, American statesmen have all along drawn a clear... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1886 - 246 pages
...therefore, except force be interposed, they govern themselves." ANCESTORS' GOVERNMENT, HOW ESTABLISHED. — Our ancestors established their system of government...men owe to each other and to society, enforced and perfoimed. Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens. Our fathers came here to enjoy... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - Law - 1886 - 818 pages
...all classes, but sufficient also for respectable attainments in literature and the sciences. Lastly, our ancestors established their ! system of government...habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on an; other foundation than religious jirinciple, nor any government be secure which is not supported... | |
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Lastly, our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any other foundation than religious principle, nor any government be secure which is not supported... 
