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Government
Honesty in States [archaic, governments], as well as in individuals, will ever be found the soundest policy.
That the Government [which the US Founder's created], though not actually perfect, is one of the best in the world, I have little doubt.
Let us have a Government, by which our lives, liberties, and properties will be secured.
The aggregate happiness of society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all Government.
The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.
Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion….are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments.
[T]he government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, and oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any other despotic or oppressive form so long as there shall remain any virtue in the body of the people.
While just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government its surest support.
It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.
The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
