What They Believed

William H. Seward
I know not how long a republican government can flourish among a great people who have not the Bible; the experiment has never been tried; but this I do know: that the existing government of this country never could have had existence but for the Bible.

And further, I do, in my conscience, believe that if at every decade of years a copy of the Bible could be found in every family in the land its republican institutions would be perpetuated.

William H. Seward
served as Governor of New York, US Senator and Secretary of State
in 1836 speech



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