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“Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being.”

“Without Virtue there can be no liberty”

Source: Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical ...

“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim tribute to patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness - these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. . . . reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.”

“. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed . . . so long as our manners and principles remain sound, there is no danger.”

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Author:Patrick Henry

“Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the heart, and on the influence all these produce on public opinion before that opinion governs rulers.”

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Book:The influences of democracy on liberty, property, and the happiness of society, considered

Source: The influences of democracy on liberty, property, and the happiness of society, considered

“The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.”

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Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.”

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Book:The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot

Source: The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot

“The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.”

Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

“Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure (and) which insures to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments.”

“The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.”

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Author:Antonio Damasio

“The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.”

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Book:Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries

Source: Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries

“My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men.”

“Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

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

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Author:Benjamin Rush

“If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . . . . If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws.”

Source: Instructive and Entertaining Lessons for Youth: With Rules for Reading with Propriety, Illustrated by Examples: Designed for Use in Schools and Families

“Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness.”

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Author:Samuel Adams

“Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?”

Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations

“Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments.”

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Book:A Diary of the French Revolution

Source: A Diary of the French Revolution

“Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name upon every trifling occasion . . . . To prevent this profanation, such passages are selected from scripture, as contain some important precepts of morality and religion, in which that sacred name is seldom mentioned. Let sacred things be appropriated to sacred purposes.”

“The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry. Who discovered that there was no such thing as a witch - the priest, the parson? No, these never discover anything.”

“The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.”

“It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God.”

“Question with boldness even the existence of a god.”

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Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.”

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.”

Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

“For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.”