Posted on Tuesday 10 August 2010
Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion and the duties of man towards God. Gouverneur Morris, Penman and Signer of the Constitution
The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments. Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind. Benjamin Rush Signer of the Declaration In my view, the Christian religion is the more important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government, ought to be instructed. 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. Noah Webster
The attainment of knowledge does not comprise all which is contained in the larger term of education. A profound religious feeling is to be instilled and pure morality inculcated under all circumstances. All this is comprised in education. Daniel Webster
Why may not the Bible, and especially the New Testament, without note or comment, be read and taught as Divine revelation in the college school its general precepts expounded, its evidences explained and its glorious principles of morality inculcated? Where can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly asfrom the New Testament? Joseph Story, U.S. Supreme Court, Father of American Jurisprudence
I cannot omit this occasion of inviting your attention to the means of instruction for the rising generation. To enable them to perceive and duly to estimate their rights; to inculcate correct principles and habits of morality and religion, and thus to render them useful citizens, a competent provision for their education is all essential. Daniel Tompkins, Governor of New York; Vice President of the U.S.