It is Mormonism, Mohammedanism and heathenism and not Christianity which have proclaimed polygamy and debased woman from the sacred place of wife to the lower level of concubine. It is not Christianity which has sustained the social evil. — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
I believe it is conceded that, notwithstanding the fabled blue laws of New England, a man may, without impropriety, kiss his wife on Sunday and possibly, if he have a chance, some other sweet-faced woman. — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial relations have… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
The time has passed in the history of the world when anything is too sacred to be touched, when anything is beyond the reach… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of the race only through… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
What single organization has done more for the orphan than the Catholic Church? What one, through hospital and asylum, more for the sick and… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
No nation is better than its sacred book. In that book are expressed its highest ideals of life, and no nation rises above those… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him,… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to suppose that the Supreme Court is either honoured or helped by being spoken of as beyond criticism. On the… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
I could show how largely our laws and customs are based upon the laws of Moses and the teachings of Christ; how constantly the… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
Religion of any form is a sacred matter. It involves the relation of the individual to some Being believed to be infinitely supreme. It… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good Samaritan and the Golden… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
Christianity is entitled to the tribute of respect. I do not of course mean that all individuals, nominally Christian, deserve trust, confidence, or even… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
