We have no government armed in power capable of contending in human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.
—John Adams, address to the militia of Massachusetts, 1798.
Statesmen my plan and speculate liberty, but it is religion and morality alone upon which freedom can securely stand.
—John Adams
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: It connected in one indispensable bond the principles of civil government with he principles of Christianity.
— John Quincy Adams
A general dissolution of Principles and Manners will more surely overthrow the Liberties of America that the whole Force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader . . . If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security.
— Samuel Adams, 1779 …
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