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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.
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The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe, which serve to support tyrannical governments, are not the Christian religion, but abuses and corruptions of it. The religion of Christ and his apostles, in it primitive simplicity and purity, unencumbered with the trappings of power and the pomp of ceremonies, is the surest basis of a republican government.
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No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
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Where will you find any code of laws among civilized men in which the commands and prohibitions are not founded on Christian principles? I need not specify the prohibition of murder, robbery, theft, trespass.
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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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Born:
October 16, 1758
Died:
May 28, 1843
(aged 84)
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