Ancestor Quote by Daniel Webster

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

— George Washington

Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths,…

— George Washington

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play…

— Bob Woodward

It makes me upset, if not angry, when people assume that there can be no morality without a religious framework. If there's a moral…

— Jane Asher

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals…

— Plutarch

Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution of your country and the government established under it. Leave evils which exist in some parts of…

— Daniel Webster

“...and then I remembered this basic religious principle that God isn't there to take away our suffering or our pain but to fill it…

— Anonymous

[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.

— Elie Wiesel

To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all…

— George Ripley

If a religious principle is worth anything, it applies to a million of human beings as truly as to one; and the difficulty of…

— Henry Parry Liddon

Holiness is religious principle put into motion. It is the love of God sent forth into circulation, on the feet, and with the hands…

— Frederic Dan Huntington

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national…

— George Washington