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“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.”

Source: Essays: Literary, Moral and Philosophical

“Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.”

Mankind Industry Favors Ingenuity Indebted Purchasers

Author:Joseph Addison

“The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.”

Humans States America Purpose Mankind Divine Higher Favors Merit Cherish Almighty Allegiance Almighty God

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“. . . Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, and which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor will have no attachment except to the person of their benefactor.”

Persons Lasts Mankind Favors Vain Attachment Dependence Persuasion Suspicious Benefactors

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.”

Would Be Order Numbers Mankind Birth Tables Strive Favors Bread Guests Artificial Irrational Diminish Banquets

Book:Christian Values and Virtues

Source: Christian Values and Virtues