Roger Sherman Quotes

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• If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be…
• The question is, not what rights naturally belong to man, but how they may be most equally and effectually guarded in society.
• Government is instituted for those who live under it.
• Sad will be the day when the American people forget their traditions and their history, and so longer remember that the country they love, the…
• I believe that the souls of believers are at their death made perfectly holy, and immediately taken to glory: that at the end of this…
• Congress has no power to make any religious establishments.
• I believe a visible church to be a congregation of those who make a credible profession of their faith in Christ, and obedience to him,…
• The Government made by a number of Sovereign States.
• The Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war.
• Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us.
• All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.
• We were driven off like rats in five minutes.

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