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George Washington

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

George Washington

Religion

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George Washington is warning that trusting morality to exist without a foundation in religion is risky and unlikely to succeed. He believes that both logical thinking and real-world evidence show that a nation's moral values depend on religious principles to endure.

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