When these men attack religious opinions, they obey the dictates of their passions to the prejudice of their interests.

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; 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 which is its own master, if it be not submissive to the Divinity?
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