 | American Historical Association - 1888 - 596 pages
...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. " That religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, and not by force or violence ; and, therefore, that all men... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1888 - 502 pages
...and safety of society. And that it is the mutual duty of all to practise ChrisMadison's Amendment. That religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator and the manner of discharging it, being under the direction of reason and religion only, not of violence or compulsion, all men are... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1888 - 176 pages
...official utterances. 8 See his speeches in Elliot, iii. 593 sqq. " That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; aad therefore all men have an equal,... | |
 | Major Garrett, Tim J. Penny - 1998 - 239 pages
...GEORGE WASHINGTON Farewell Address to Congress September 19, 1796 That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally... | |
 | Garrett Ward Sheldon - 2003 - 324 pages
...Remonstrance" echoes the Virginia Declaration of Rights in asserting that "religion or the duty which we owe to our creator and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ... [it] must be left to the conscience... | |
 | Catharine Cookson - 2001 - 288 pages
...detail: i. Because we hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, "that Religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence." The religion then of every man must... | |
 | Kermit L. Hall - 2001 - 806 pages
...from mere governmental neutrality. 160 Tho Virginia proposal read: That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men have an equal,... | |
 | Azizah al-Hibri, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Charles C. Haynes - 2001 - 212 pages
...seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny." In contrast, he argues, "Religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator and the Manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence." Only a freely chosen, disestablished... | |
 | Steven D. Smith - 2001 - 250 pages
...primary argument: [W]e hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, "that Religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator and the Manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence." The Religion then of every man must... | |
 | Wolfgang Fikentscher, Achim R. Fochem - 2002 - 336 pages
...virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. Sec. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally... | |
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That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence... 
