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“If we and our posterity shall be true to the Christian religion, if we and they shall live always in the fear of God and shall respect His
Commandments,... we may have the highest hopes of the future fortunes of our country;...
But if we and our posterity neglect religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.” Daniel Webster
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