...and state are most upset. They like to quote passages like this, from Washington's Farewell Address: And let us with caution indulge the supposition that...structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.4 Madison certainly agreed...

...obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? And lest us with caution indulge the supposition that morality...structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." Accommodationists are...

...dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and morality are indispensable supports And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that...to the influence of refined education on minds of particular structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail...

...subvert the great Pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Man and citizens... Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined...structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.38 As Washington's Vice...

...and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports . . . Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined...structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." 28 Along with the cultivation...

...about assuming that morality could be maintained in the absence of religion. Washington continued: "Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined...structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."11 In short, he thought...

...especially a college education— can undo eighteen years of earlier grade-school and parental failure."5 "Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined...structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."6 "Apply thine heart...

...these great pillars of human happiness. these firmest supports of the duties of Men and Citizens. . . . Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined...structure; reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." Ibid.. 1 :494-95. 3...

...reminded of the Farewell Address of Franklin's fellow Freemason George Washington, with its warning that "Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined...structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."13 The somber Washington...

...their possibility, then the political benefits of religion cannot be held, and democracy itself decays. "Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure," Washington famously warned in his Farewell Address, "reason and experience both forbid us to expect...