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The education of youth should be watched with the most scrupulous attention. [I]t is much easier to introduce and establish an effectual system ... than…

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The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities, and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated…
Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible,…
It is alleged by men of loose principles , or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary…
...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made,…
It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a…
But while property is considered as the basis of the freedom of the American yeomanry, there are other auxiliary supports; among which…
The minds of youth are perpetually led to the history of Greece and Rime or to Great Britain; Boys are constantly repeating…
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.
The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes.
In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his…
[T]he Christian religion, in its purity, is the basis, or rather the source of all genuine freedom in government. . . .…
If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . . . .…

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I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make… — Lord Byron
There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly… — Charles Spurgeon
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common… — Edward Gibbon
Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean… — Victor Hugo
And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons… — Georges Bernanos
Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but entirely by the bourgeoisie… — Michel Foucault
Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance. — Saint Augustine
I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system. — William J. Clinton
Sometime, it will be found that people can be changed only by changing their surroundings. It is alleged that, at least ninety-five… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Even apart from the image of a truly merciless God that contradicts everything we can assume from what Jesus says about the… — Hans Kung
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves… — William J. Brennan
How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much… — Daniel O'Connell

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