The Founders on Religion: A Book of QuotationsJames H. Hutson Princeton University Press, 10. 11. 2009 - Počet stran: 288 What did the founders of America think about religion? Until now, there has been no reliable and impartial compendium of the founders' own remarks on religious matters that clearly answers the question. This book fills that gap. A lively collection of quotations on everything from the relationship between church and state to the status of women, it is the most comprehensive and trustworthy resource available on this timely topic. |
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... caused in their view by an unremitting and illegitimate campaign to banish Christianity from all areas of the public arena as well as from the writing and teaching of American history. The perceived purging of Christianity from the ...
... cause of Christ.”11 Madison's religious fervor did not persist and, as the years passed, he became, according to a friend, sympathetic to Unitarianism and, if a recent scholar is to be credited, an outright skeptic.12 If Madison's faith ...
... cause to lament than his end. He has appeared before a judge, the searcher of hearts and most merciful. Let us pray that he has found mercy at that dread tribunal. Charles Carroll of Carrollton to Mrs. Charles Carroll, Jr., April 12 ...
... Cause of all Things, whether We call it, Fate or Chance or god has inspired this Hope. If it is a Fraud, we shall never know it. We shall never resent the Imposition, be grateful for the Illusion, nor grieve for the disappointment. John ...
... cause of Gratitude. In all the vicissitudes, terrors, vexations and perplexities and agitations of a long life of danger, a kind providence has preserved me to this advanced age [eighty-five—Ed.] in such a degree of health that I have ...