“Of all the
dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and
morality are indispensable supports. . . . Let us with caution indulge the
supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. . . . Reason and
experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in
exclusion or religion principle.
“It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a
necessary spring of popular government.”
Washington’s Farewell Address, ed. Thomas Arkle Clark
(1908), 14.
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