Whatever may be the merits of a religious system, its effects upon the mass of mankind must depend in an important degree upon its teachers. All instruction and all truth, except simple mathematical truth, is modified by the medium through… — 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
