The will of the majority is only the law of might, and if I can evade it, or overcome it, my will is as good as theirs.

Oaths are only an idle superstition; there is no judge, no judgment, no punishment for the false swearer." Take away the moral sanction of law, and the sacredness of oaths, and what basis have you left for any government, save the point of the bayonet?
Take away the revealed law of God, and you leave not a vestige of any authority to any human law.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident," said the immortal framers of the basis of the American Confederation, "that all men are created equal; that they are _endowed by their Creator_ with certain unalienable rights." It was well said.

The rights of God are the only basis of the rights of man.

One of the most sagacious of modern statesmen has borne his testimony to this fundamental truth--that religion is the only basis of social order--in words as trenchant as the guillotine which suggested them.