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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... mankind be forever the credulous dupes of such vageries. When will men be rational creatures?” Adams to Francis van der Kemp, February 12, 1821, Adams Papers (microfilm), reel 124, Library of Congress. It is not clear whether other ...
... mankind are excluded. Revelation instructs us that eternal happiness, or eternal misery will be the des- tiny of man in the life to come, the most pious the most exemplary have trembled at the thought of the dreadful alternative: oh ...
... mankind, when the righteous shall be publickly acquitted by Christ the Judge and admitted to everlasting life and glory, and the wicked be sen- tenced to everlasting punishment. Roger Sherman, “White Haven Church Confession of Faith ...
... Mankind. John Adams, “Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law” (draft), The American Union will last as long as God pleases. It is the duty of every American Citizen to exert his utmost abilities and endeavours to preserve it as long ...
... Mankind consists of weak and ignorant Men and Women, and of inexperienc'd and inconsiderate Youth of both Sexes, who have need of the Motives of Religion to re- strain them from Vice, to support their Virtue, and to retain them in the ...