We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools. We've become accustomed of late of putting little books into the hands of children, containing fables and moral lessons. We're spending less time in the classroom on the Bible, which should be the principal text in our schools. The Bible states these great moral lessons better than any other man-made book.

Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into.

[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.

Why then, if these new books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book ?

We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools. We've become accustomed of late of putting little books into the hands of children, containing fables and moral lessons. We're spending less time in the classroom on the Bible, which should be the principal text in our schools. The Bible states these great moral lessons better than any other man-made book.

The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.