Edited sentence: </blockquote>Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice.And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion.He called morality "a necessary spring of popular government," and stated:.The third theme considers Washington's view of preserving "political prosperity" through morality and religion.Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle