Page 37 - Grand jury handbook
P. 37

govern  ourselves,  to  control  ourselves,  to  sustain  ourselves  According  to  the  Ten
       Commandments of God -- James Madison


       Religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and manner of discharging it, can be directed

       only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; -- James Madison

       Let it simply be asked where is the security for prosperity, for reputation, for life, if the

       sense of Religious obligation desert the oaths, which are The instruments of investigation in
       the Courts of Justice? -- George Washington


       And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without

       religion. -- George Washington

       Whatever  may  be  conceded  to  the  influence  of  refined  education  on  minds  of  peculiar

       structure, reason and experience both Forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail
       in exclusion of religious principle. George Washington


       Tis substantially true, that Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.
       George Washington


       Though, in reviewing the incidents of my Administration, I am unconscious of intentional

       error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have
       committed many errors. Whatever they may be I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or

       mitigate the evils to which they may tend. George Washington

       Congress and President George Washington in 1789 passed the "United States Annotated

       Code", Article III which states: Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good
       government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever

       be encouraged.




                                 RELIGION IN LAW AND GOVERNMENT


       In my view, the Christian religion is the most 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. - The "Father of American Scholarship
       and Education." Noah Webster



                                                             37
   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40