by Mike Van Schoiack | Apr 7, 2015 | Founders, James Madison, President, Quotes, Religion, Subject
“That Religion or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, being under the direction of reason and conviction only, not of violence or compulsion, all men are equally entitled to the full and free exercise of it according to the dictates...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Apr 7, 2015 | Founders, James Madison, President, Quotes, Religion, Subject
“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprize, every expanded prospect.” James Madison, letter to William Bradford, April 1, 1774
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Education, Government, Natural Law, Quotes, Religion
“.every citizen … is taught . the doctrines and the evidences of his religion, the history of his country, and the leading features of its Constitution … it is extremely rare to find a man imperfectly acquainted with all these things, and a person...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Government, Quotes, Religion
“America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” Alexis de Tocqueville Courtesy of the National Center for Constitutional Studies (www.nccs.net)
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Founders, Quotes, Religion, Samuel Adams, Uncategorized
“We may look up to Armies for our defense, but virtue is our best security. It is not possible that any state should long remain free, where virtue is not supremely honored.” Samuel Adams Courtesy of the National Center for Constitutional Studies...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Founders, George Washington, Government, President, Quotes, Religion
“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports…. It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.” George Washington’s...
