"The almost general mediocrity of
fortune that prevails in America obliging its people to follow some business
for subsistence, those vices, that arise usually from idleness, are in a great
measure prevented. Industry and constant employment are great preservatives of
the morals and virtue of a nation. Hence bad examples to youth are more rare in
America, which must be a comfortable consideration to parents. To this may be
truly added, that serious religion, under its various denominations, is not
only tolerated, but respected and practiced."
--Benjamin Franklin, Information to
Those Who Would Remove to America, 1782
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