When they get piled upon one another in large cities as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe. When I look around me for security against these seductions, I find it in the wide spread of our agricultural citizens, in their unsophisticated minds, their independence and their power, if called on, to crush the Humanists of our cities, and to maintain the principles which severed us from England. It is not eloquence. It is impossible to govern the universe without the aid of a Supreme Being. It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.
Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion.
The one cannot exist without the other. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency. Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.