The Founders on Religion: A Book of QuotationsJames H. Hutson Princeton University Press, 2009 M11 10 - 288 páginas What did the founders of America think about religion? Until now, there has been no reliable and impartial compendium of the founders' own remarks on religious matters that clearly answers the question. This book fills that gap. A lively collection of quotations on everything from the relationship between church and state to the status of women, it is the most comprehensive and trustworthy resource available on this timely topic. |
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... virtue, and hate vice, and reward the one and punish the other. Keep in mind, and reflect frequently and seriously on the. of no avail unless you abstain from tasting, even from smelling all ardent spirits. Abigail Adams to John Quincy ...
... virtue will be rewarded and vice punished in a future state. John Adams to Adrian van der Kemp, January 30, 1814. Ibid., reel 95. All Nations, known in History or in Travels have hoped, believed and expected a future and better State ...
... virtue a happy country. And we should still have enjoyed the blessings of peace and plenty, if we had not for- gotten the source from which those blessings flowed; and permitted our country to be contaminated by the many shameful vices ...
... virtue. John Dickinson, Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies. Paul H. Ford, ed., The Writings of John Dickinson (Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1895), 1:405. The American ...
... Virtue and Happiness be universal, with all my heart. Think not. divine interposition was so frequently manifested in our behalf. John Witherspoon, “Sermon delivered at a Public Thanksgiving after Peace,” November 28, 1782. Works of ...