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The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.
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In the formation of our constitution the wisdom of all ages is collected-the legislators of antiquity are consulted, as well as the opinions and interests of the millions who are concerned. It short, it is an empire of reason.
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Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.
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No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
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Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.
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Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties.
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A national language is a band of national union.
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Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.
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The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.
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Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective.
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Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of language.