CALVINISM

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1. He that will not honor the memory, and respect the influence of Calvin, knows but little of the origin of American independence.—BANCROFT

2. There is no system which equals Calvinism in intensifying, to the last degree, ideas of moral excellence and purity of character. It has always worked for liberty. There never was a system since the world began which puts upon men such motives to holiness or builds batteries which sweep the whole ground of sin with such horrible artillery.—H. W. BEECHER
   

3. Wherever Calvinism was established, it brought with it not only truth but liberty and all the great developments which these two fertile principles carry with them.—J. H. D'AUBIGNE
   

4. You can and you can't,
   You will and you won't;
   You'll be damn'd if you do.
   You'll be damn'd if you don't.—LORENZO Dow, Chain (of Calvinism)
   

5. The promulgation of Calvin's theology was one of the longest steps that mankind has taken toward personal freedom.—JOHN FISKE
   

6. Calvinism has produced characters nobler and grander than any which republican Rome ever produced.—FROUDE
   

7. Calvin's Institutes, in spite of its imperfections, is, on the whole, one of the noblest edifices ever erected by the mind of man, and one of the mightiest codes of moral law which ever guided him.—GUIZOT
   

8. To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.—J. L. MOTLEY
   

9. Calvinism is a democratic and republican religion.—DE TOCQUEVILLE