 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1840 - 394 pages
...experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. It is substantially true, that virtue or morality...strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is, to use it as sparingly as possible ; avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1840 - 384 pages
...experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. It is substantially true, that virtue or morality...of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should bo enlightened.... | |
 | 1840 - 506 pages
...Father of our Country, in his Farewell Address, speaking of the basis of a free government, says, — "Promote, then, as an object of primary importance,...of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential, that public opinion be enlightened." * *... | |
 | Presidents - 1841 - 460 pages
...if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge...strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it, is to use it as sparingly as possible, avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating... | |
 | Edward Currier - United States - 1841 - 474 pages
...if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge...of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion shouldbe enlightened.... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1842 - 794 pages
...with more or less force to every species of free government. 'Who that ia a sincere friend io it cau look with indifference upon attempts to shake the...strength and security, cherish public credit One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible, avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating... | |
 | M. Sears - Statesmen - 1842 - 586 pages
...sincere friend to it can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric 1 Promote, then, as an object of primary importance,...strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it, is to use it as sparingly as possible, avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating... | |
 | Samuel Farmer Wilson - United States - 1843 - 452 pages
...experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. It is substantially true, that virtue or morality...strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it, is to use it as sparingly as possible; avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...exclusion of religious principle. 'Tis substantially true, that virtue and morality are necessary springs of popular government. The rule indeed extends with...strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible ; avoiding occasions of expense, by cultivating... | |
 | Rhode Island - Law - 1844 - 612 pages
...both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail, in exclusion of religious principle. 'Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary...strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is, to use it as sparingly as possible ; avoiding occasions of expense, by cultivating... | |
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Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened. 
