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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... things of this life and few of its miseries, I ought to rise satisfied from the feast, and be gratefull to the Giver. I too firmly believe that virtue will be rewarded and vice punished in a future state. John Adams to Adrian van der ...
... all appear 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.
... Things done in his Body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.” “Some shall awake to everlasting Life and some to everlasting Shame and Contempt” for “He will bring to Light the hidden Things of Darkness, and will ...
... thing to bear up thro' the heat of the action, to witness the death of all of our companions, and merely be the last victim? I doubt it. We have however the traveller's consolation. Every step shortens the distance we have to go; the ...
... things is a long life and there is nothing I have ever dreaded so much. Altho' subject to occasional indispositions my health is too good generally not to give me fear on that subject. I am weak indeed in body, able scarcely to walk ...