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• [F]or avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy . . . the only ground of hope must be on the morals of…
• Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments.
• In adopting the republican form of government, I not only took it as a man does his wife, for better, for worse,…
• We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for…
• Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man…
• I look forward serenely to the course of events, confident that the Fountain of supreme wisdom and virtue will provide for the…
• If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he…
• There must be religion. When that ligament is torn, society is disjointed and its members perish... [T]he most important of all lessons…
• He asks how the evil is to be remedied. I tell him that there seems to be little chance for avoiding the…
• The education of young citizens ought to form them to good manners, to accustom them to labor, to inspire them with a…
• This magistrate is not the king. The people are the king.
• Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward…

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