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        All societies of men must be governed in some way or other. The less they may have of stringent State Government, the more they must have of individual self-government. The less they rely on public law or physical force, the more they must rely on private moral restraint. Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the Word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet. It may do for other countries and other governments to talk about the State supporting religion. Here, under our own free institutions, it is Religion which must support the State.
         
     
    Robert Charles Winthrop
                 
            
        
     
    
    
    
             
        
                
           Robert Charles Winthrop
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    Occupation: American Politician
    
    
Born: May 12, 1809
    
    
Died: November 16, 1894
    
Quotes count: 8
    
    
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