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" Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. Religion is much more necessary in the republic which they set forth in glowing colors than in the monarchy which they attack; it is more needed in democratic republics than in any others. How is... "
God & Government: An Insider's View on the Boundaries Between Faith & Politics - Page 259
by Charles Colson - 2010 - 643 pages
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 57

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1836 - 572 pages
...republics than in any others. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie be not strengthened in proportion as the political tie...is relaxed ? — and what can be done with a people which is its own master, if it be not submissive to the Deity?' — vol. ii. p. 236. M. de Tocqueville...
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The Quarterly review, Volume 57

1836 - 564 pages
...in the monarchy which they attack, and it is more needed in democratic republics than in any others. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie be not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed ? — and what can be done with a...
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Democracy in America, Volume 1

Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1838 - 534 pages
....,,.,..- ---- -J1" '"' escape destruction if the moral tie be not strengtlieae.d.jfljroporfion~aii"tjier political tie is relaxed ? and what can be done with a people which is its own master, if it be not submissive to the Divinity ? PRINCIPAL CAUSES WHICH RENDER RELIGION...
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Democracy in America, Volume 1

Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1839 - 714 pages
...the monarchy which they attack ; and it is more needed in democratic republics than in any others. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie be not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed ? and what can be done with a people...
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The Biblical repositor (and quarterly observer) [afterw.] The American ...

Edward Robinson - 1840 - 536 pages
...say." " How is it possible," he exclaims, " that society should escape destruction, if the moral tie be not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed ? and what can be done with a people which is its own master, if it be not submissive to the Divinity ?" Is not this a true report ? Is...
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The American Biblical Repository

Theology - 1840 - 534 pages
...say." " How is it possible," he exclaims, "that society should escape destruction, if the moral tie be not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed ? and what can be done with a people which is its own master, if it be not submissive to the Divinity?" Is not this a true report? Is not...
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Biblical Repository and Quarterly Observer

Religion - 1840 - 1078 pages
...say." " How is it possible," he exclaims, "that society should escape destruction, if the moral tie be not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed ? and what can be done with a people which is its own master, if it be not submissive to the Divinity ?" Is not this a true report ? Is...
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A Comparative View of the Constitutions of Great Britain and the United ...

Peter Freeland Aiken - Constitutional law - 1842 - 218 pages
...what is rash and unjust How is it possible that societyshould escape destruction, if the moral tie be not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed ? And what can be done with a nation which is its own master, if it be not submissive to the Divine Ruler ?" Thus religion constitutes...
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A Comparative View of the Constitutions of Great Britain and the United ...

Peter Freeland Aiken - Constitutional law - 1842 - 212 pages
...please, religion prevents them from conceiving and forbids them from committing what is rash and unjust How is it possible that society should escape destruction, if the moral tie be not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed ? And what can be done with a nation...
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Democracy in America

Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1848 - 916 pages
...than in any others. How js impossible that society should escape dffifniplinn if thejporal tie , '" proportion as the political tie is relaxed ? and what can be done with a people which is its own master, if it be not submissive to the Divinity ? PRINCIPAL CAUSES WHICH RENDER RELIGION...
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