No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and, when a prince makes a law or performs an action which has a tendency to… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis Copy Share Image
Religion may become a fashion as well as anything else; and, when it does become so, it has as little to do, in those who thus hold it, with the heart and the character as any other fashion. — Benjamin Robbins Curtis Copy Share Image
No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects;… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the merits of a religious system, its effects upon the mass of mankind must depend in an important degree upon its… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis Copy Share Image
Religion may become a fashion as well as anything else; and, when it does become so, it has as little to do, in those… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis Copy Share Image
There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis Copy Share Image
He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis Copy Share Image
No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis Copy Share Image
The northern nations who burst the barriers of the Roman Empire and spread themselves over the most flourishing countries of Europe soon became sensible… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis Copy Share Image
The mind as well as the body must be not only strong but well disciplined in order to act with promptness and vigor in… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis Copy Share Image
