Top 13 Gouverneur Morris Quotes
#2. Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments.
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#3. He asks how the evil is to be remedied. I tell him that there seems to be little chance for avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy; that the only ground of hope must be the morals of the people, but that these are, I fear, too corrupt.
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#4. Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.
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#5. Give the vote to the people who have no property, and they will sell them to the rich, who will be able to buy them.
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#6. If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation.
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#7. They (the French) have taken genius instead of reason for their guide, adopted experiment instead of experience, and wander in the dark because they prefer lightning to light.
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#8. In adopting the republican form of government, I not only took it as a man does his wife, for better, for worse, but, what few men do with their wives, I took it knowing all its bad qualities.
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#9. There must be religion. When that ligament is torn, society is disjointed and its members perish ... [T]he most important of all lessons is the denunciation of ruin to every state that rejects the precepts of religion.
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#10. Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.
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#11. The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They
always did ... they always will. They will have the same effect here as
elsewhere, if we do not, by the power of government, keep them in their proper
spheres.
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#13. The trial of Zenger in 1735 was the germ of American freedom, the morning star of that liberty which subsequently revolutionized America.
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