Reason Quotes by David Josiah Brewer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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