Gouverneur Morris Quote

There must be religion. When that ligament is torn, society is disjointed and its members perish... [T]he most important of all lessons is the denunciation of ruin to every state that rejects the precepts of religion.


An Inaugural Discourse (ed. 1816)


There must be religion. When that ligament is torn, society is disjointed and its members perish... [T]he most important of all lessons is the...

There must be religion. When that ligament is torn, society is disjointed and its members perish... [T]he most important of all lessons is the...

There must be religion. When that ligament is torn, society is disjointed and its members perish... [T]he most important of all lessons is the...

There must be religion. When that ligament is torn, society is disjointed and its members perish... [T]he most important of all lessons is the...