David Josiah Brewer Quotes

• Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise, and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian.

  David Josiah Brewer

  Christian, Religious, Teaching

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• I could show how largely our laws and customs are based upon the laws of Moses and the teachings of Christ; how constantly the Bible is appealed to as the guide of life and the authority in questions of morals... Add a volume of unofficial declaration to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation.

  David Josiah Brewer

  Christian, Religious, Teaching

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• No nation is better than its sacred book. In that book are expressed its highest ideals of life, and no nation rises above those ideals. No nation has a sacred book to be compared with ours. This American nation from its first settlement at Jamestown to the present hour is based upon and permeated by the principles of the Bible. The more this Bible enters into our national life the grander and purer and better will that life become.

  David Josiah Brewer

  Book, Principles, Jamestown

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• He who is honest in his dealings simply because of the social prestige and position it secures will never develop his higher nature, but will always live along the lower lines.

  David Josiah Brewer

  Lines, Honest, Prestige

  David Josiah Brewer (1905). “The United States a Christian Nation”

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• Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of counsel!

  David Josiah Brewer

  Often Is, Ordinary, Doe

  David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899). “The World's best orations: from the earliest period to the present time”

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