Let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without 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.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

While I had followed a policy of not endorsing political candidates, I felt that the prospect of Senator Goldwater being President of the United States so threatened the health, morality, and survival of our nation, that I could not in good conscience fail to take a stand against what he represented.

Society is impossible without inequality, inequality intolerable without a code of morality, and a code of morality unacceptable without religion.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.