The Founders on Religion: A Book of QuotationsJames H. Hutson Princeton University Press, 10.11.2009 - 288 Seiten What did the founders of America think about religion? Until now, there has been no reliable and impartial compendium of the founders' own remarks on religious matters that clearly answers the question. This book fills that gap. A lively collection of quotations on everything from the relationship between church and state to the status of women, it is the most comprehensive and trustworthy resource available on this timely topic. |
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... Thomas Jefferson, and James Madi- son at the Library of Congress were searched, with some surprising results. These new sources offer readers a richer and livelier selection of statements about the religion of the Founders than is now ...
... Thomas Jefferson, also at one time an Episcopal vestryman, “constantly attended public worship” in the House of Representatives, once riding through a cloudburst to arrive on time.3 In retirement he regularly patronized worship services ...
... Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, November 2, 1822. Paul L. Ford, ed., The Works of Thomas Jefferson, 12 vols. (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904–05), 12:271; Papers of the Albemarle County His- torical Society 8 (1947–1948), 63. 5 ...
... Jefferson's Extracts ANB Boller, Washington Boyd, Papers of Thomas Jefferson Butterfield, Adams Family Correspondence Butterfield, Diary and Autobiography ofJohn Adams Butterfield, Letters of Rush Dickinson W. Adams, ed., Jefferson's ...
... Thomas Jefferson, May 3, 1816. Cappon, Adams- Jefferson Letters, 2:471. I know not how to prove physically that We shall meet and know each other in a future State; Nor does Revelation, as I can find give Us any positive Assurance of ...