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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... believe that, if these convictions can be revived and restored as guiding principles in American public life, the nation can be healed of the host of social ills that afflict it. What better way to prove that the Founders were grounded ...
... believe. I use a wider variety of sources than is employed in the quote books. Many of them rely exclusively on secondary sources and are notably incestuous, borrowing freely from one another and perpetuating in the process errors and ...
... believe there is no God; his passions and the corruption of his heart would feign persuade him that there is not; the stings of conscience betray the emptiness of the delusion: the heavens proclaim the existence of God, and unperverted ...
... believe that this Mortal Body shall one day put on immortality and be renovated in the World of Spirits. Having enjoyed a large portion of the good things of this life and few of its miseries, I ought to rise satisfied from the feast ...
... believe a future State I should believe in no God. This Universe; this all; this . . .totality; would appear with all its swelling Pomp, a boyish Fire Work. And if there be a future State Why should the Almighty dissolve forever all the ...