The United States, or the American Republic, has a mission, and is chosen of God for the realization of a great idea. It has been chosen not only to continue the work assigned to Greece and Rome, but to accomplish… — Orestes Brownson Copy Share Image
If you would make a man happy, study not to augment his goods; but to diminish his wants. One of the greatest services Christianity has rendered the world has been its consecration of poverty, and its elevation of labor to… — Orestes Brownson Copy Share Image
The great object was to get rid of Christianity, and to convert our churches into halls of science. The plan was not to make… — Orestes Brownson Copy Share Image
If there must always be a laboring population distinct from proprietors and employers, we regard the slave system as decidedly preferable to the system… — Orestes Brownson Copy Share Image
The United States, or the American Republic, has a mission, and is chosen of God for the realization of a great idea. It has… — Orestes Brownson Copy Share Image
I love the Irish for their attachment to the faith and for many amiable and noble qualities, but they are deficient in good sense,… — Orestes Brownson Copy Share Image
If you would make a man happy, study not to augment his goods; but to diminish his wants. One of the greatest services Christianity… — Orestes Brownson Copy Share Image
Wages is a cunning device of the devil, for the benefit of tender consciences, who would retain all the advantages of the slave system,… — Orestes Brownson Copy Share Image
The immortality of the soul is assented to rather than believed, believed rather than lived. — Orestes Brownson Copy Share Image
