Caution Quote by George Washington

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle

— George Washington

Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.

— George Washington

“& experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”

— Janice T. Connell

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

— George Washington

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim tribute…

— George Washington

Without freedom there can be no morality.

— Carl Jung

In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals can exist…

— Benjamin Rush

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

Everywhere the tendency has been to separate religion from morality, to set them in opposition even. But a religion without morality is a superstition…

— Mark Hopkins

The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country…

— Margaret Atwood

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

— Sam Harris