“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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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.
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor he betrays the interest of his country.
The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.
