Such Is My Veneration For Every Religion

If We Were To Remove The Bible From Public Schools We Would Be Wasting So Much Time Punishing Crimes And Taking So Little Pains To Prevent Them.

The American War Is Over; But This Far From Being The Case With The American Revolution. On The Contrary, Nothing But The First Act Of The Drama Is Closed. It Remains Yet To Establish And Perfect Our New Forms Of Government, And To Prepare The Principles, Morals, And Manners Of Our Citizens For These Forms Of Government After They Are Established And Brought To Perfection.

I Grant This Mode Of Secluding Boys From The Intercourse Of Private Families Has A Tendency To Make Them Scholars, But Our Business Is To Make Them Men, Citizens, And Christians. The Vices Of Young People Are Generally Learned From Each Other. The Vices Of Adults Seldom Infect Them. By Separating Them From Each Other, Therefore, In Their Hours Of Relaxation From Study, We Secure Their Morals From A Principal Source Of Corruption, While We Improve Their Manners By Subjecting Them To Those Restraints Which The Difference Of Age And Sex Naturally Produce In Private Families.

Liberty Without Virtue Would Be No Blessing To Us.

I Have Alternately Been Called An Aristocrat And A Democrat. I Am Neither. I Am A Christocrat.