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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... Ibid., May 25, 1813, reel 2. I need not urge the necessity of your conquering entirely the fatal habit to which you have been so many years a slave; without a perfect and complete mastery of it, you know you can enjoy no peace of mind ...
... Ibid.,April 12, 1821, reel 3. [Charles Carroll, Jr., died, April 3, 1825—Ed.]. I presume that he expressed anguish and repentance for the life he led; the course of which both of us have more cause to lament than his end. He has ...
... Ibid., reel 95. All Nations, known in History or in Travels have hoped, believed and expected a future and better State. The Maker of the Universe, the Cause of all Things, whether We call it, Fate or Chance or god has inspired this ...
... before the Judgment seat of Christ, that everyone may receive the Things. John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, December 8, 1818. Ibid., 2:530. Benjamin Franklin to George Whitefield, June 19, 1764. Labaree, Papers. 6 The Quotations.
... Ibid., 2:529. Life's visions are vanished, its dreams are no more; Dear. Thomas Jefferson to John Page, June 25, 1804. Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress. Thomas Jefferson (New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1941), 212. 10 The ...