I am sure ACLJ knows and has googled this, but there is not a good source that Washington ever said this. This is probably a telephone game of a Washington quote from a 1835 history book which honestly sounds more like Washington.
"It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being.
It is impossible to govern the universe without the aid of a Supreme Being.
It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one." [1]
No comments:
Post a Comment