The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.

The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.

The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.

We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible; for this divine book, above all others, favors that equality among mankind, that respect for just laws, and all those sober and frugal virtues which constitute the soul of republicanism.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty