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“Sigma Chi, more than anything else, got me involved with the people who knew how to study, and they helped me. I learned from them. The Norman Shield is still quite applicable now.”

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William DeVries

William DeVries, born in December 1943, is an individual whose profession and category remain unknown. more

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

“Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God. These duties are, internally, love and adoration: externally, devotion and obedience; therefore provision should be made for maintaining divine worship as well as education. But each one has a right to entire liberty as to religious opinions, for religion is the relation between God and man; therefore it is not within the reach of human authority.”

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Author:Gouverneur Morris

“I look forward serenely to the course of events, confident that the Fountain of supreme wisdom and virtue will provide for the happiness of his creatures... Whenever the present storm subsides, I shall rush with eagerness into the bosom of private life, but while it continues, and while my country calls for the exertion of that little share of abilities, which it has pleased God to bestow on me, I hold it my indispensable duty to give myself to her.”

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Author:Gouverneur Morris

“If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation.”

People Ifs Men Should Character Might Speak Failing Reputation Distinguished Recycling Continental

Author:Gouverneur Morris

“The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They always did...they always will. They will have the same effect here as elsewhere, if we do not, by the power of government, keep them in their proper spheres.”

Ifs Government Political Power Rich Effects Politician Strive Spheres Elsewhere Dominion Enslavement Founding Fathers Democracy Central Banking

Author:Gouverneur Morris

“There must be religion. When that ligament is torn, society is disjointed and its members perish... [T]he most important of all lessons is the denunciation of ruin to every state that rejects the precepts of religion.”

Important States Lessons Members Ruins Rejects Torn

Author:Gouverneur Morris

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