
“Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.”
Speech at Plymouth, Massachusetts (22 December 1820)
Speech at Plymouth, Massachusetts (22 December 1820)
“Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.”
Speech at Plymouth, Massachusetts (22 December 1820)
“Our Nation, A Product of Christianity,” Springfield Republican, 1884, editorial.
1880s
2011-10-07
Pastor backing Perry: Romney not a Christian
Carrie
Dann
NBC News
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2011/10/07/8211096-pastor-backing-perry-romney-not-a-christian?lite
Letter accepting appointment as headmaster of Rugby; in Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
“Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.”
394
1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
Context: The highfalutin aims of democracy, whether real or imaginary, are always assumed to be identical with its achievements. This, of course, is sheer hallucination. Not one of those aims, not even the aim of giving every adult a vote, has been realized. It has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.