Your search for "holy place" returned 10 results from 8 Founders.
William Cullen Bryant:"The groves were God's first temples."source: A Forest Hymn, 1825.nature, temples, belief, faith, holy place, trees
Gouverneur Morris:"The reflection and experience of many years have led me to consider the holy writings not only as the most authentic and instructive in themselves, but as the clue to all other history. They tell us what man is, and they alone tell us why he is what he is: a contradictory creature that seeing and approving of what is good, pursues and performs what is evil. All of private and public life is there displayed. ... From the same pure fountain of wisdom we learn that vice destroys freedom; that arbitrary power is founded on public immorality."source: Collections of the New York historical Society for the Year 1821", (New York: E. Bliss and E. White, 1821), p. 30, from "An Inaugural Discourse Delivered Before the New York Historical Society byt the Honorable Gouverneur Morris", September 4, 1816Public morality, morality, Public Virtue, Separation of Church and State
Elias Boudinot, LL.D.:"Let us enter on this important business under the idea that we are Christians on whom the eyes of the world are now turned. ... Let us in the first place ... humbly and penitently implore the aid of the Almighty God whom we profess to serve - let us earnestly call and beseech him for Chirst's sake to preside in our councils."source: "The Life and Public Services, and letters of Elias Boudinot, LL.D., President of the Continental Congress", J.J. Boudinot, ed. (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., 1896), Vol. 1, pp. 18-19Christianity, U.S. - Christian Nation, Separation of Church and State
Thomas Jefferson:"I, however, place economy among the first and most important of republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared"source: Letter to William Plumer (21 July 1816)economy, debt, public debt
John Adams:"A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general emulation takes place, which causes good humor, sociability, good manners, and good morals to be general. That elevation of sentiment inspired by such a government, makes the common people brave and enterprising. That ambition which is inspired by it makes them sober, industrious, and frugal."source: Thoughts on Government, 1776principles, ambition, freemen
John Adams:"The Science of Government it is my Duty to study, more than all other Sciences: the art of Legislation and Administration and Negotiation, ought to take Place, indeed to exclude in a manner all other Arts, I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine. "source: Letter to Abigail Adams, May 12, 1780.education, importance of study, sacrifice, posterity
Benjamin Franklin:"Sir, there are two passions which have a powerful influence in the affairs of men. These are ambition and avarice; the love of power and the love of money. Separately, each of these has great force in prompting men to action; but when united in view of the same object, they have in many minds the most violent effects. Place before the eyes of such men a post of honor, that shall at the same time be a place of profit, and they will move heaven and earth to obtain it. The vast number of such places it is that renders the British government so tempestuous. The struggles for them are the true source of all those factions which are perpetually dividing the nation, distracting its councils, hurrying it sometimes into fruitless and mischievous wars, and often compelling a submission to dishonorable terms of peace."source: Ibid., 9:591war, motive, corruption, tendency of man, oppression
John Howard Paine:"Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home."source: From the play "Clari, the Maid of Milan," 1823.family, home, peace, happiness
Thomas Paine:"Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote form all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them."source: "The American Crisis. No. 1" in the Pennsylvania Journal, December 19, 1776.foreign relations, policy, happiness, trade
Benjamin Franklin:"The diversity of opinions turns on two points. If a proportional representation takes place, the small states contend that their liberties will be in danger. If an equality of votes is to be put in its place, the large states say their money will be in danger. When a broad table is to be made, and the edges of planks do not fit, the artist takes a little from both and makes a good joint. In like manner, here, both sides must part from some of their demands in order that they may join in some accommodating proposition."source: Ibid., p. 196.design of government, compromise, give and take

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