A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of the race… — 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… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
The phonograph and kinetoscope may some day seize and perpetuate all save the magnetic touch, but that weird, illusive, indefinable yet wonderfully… — 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
