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  • Lastly, our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any other foundation than religious principle, nor any government be secure which is not supported by moral habits.... Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

    Daniel Webster (1853). “The Great Orations and Senatorial Speech of Daniel Webster”, p.49
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